Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Thunder Sandboxes

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Thunder Sandboxes costs $0.051 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Thunder Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and offers GPUs.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

Thunder Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second
Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.051
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.016
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Thunder Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Thunder Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Hugging Face Sandboxes:
Thunder Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Thunder Sandboxes: Python
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Thunder Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Thunder Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Thunder Sandboxes: $0.332

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.166 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Thunder Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.

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