Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Together Sandbox

Hugging Face Sandboxes costs $0.005 per vCPU-hour and Together Sandbox costs $0.0446 per vCPU-hour. Hugging Face Sandboxes runs full VMs, offers GPUs and limits a session to 24 hours. Together Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
24 hours

Together Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Together Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Together Sandbox: Per second
Isolation
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM
Together Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Together Sandbox: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
Storage
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Together Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python
Together Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Hugging Face Sandboxes
Together Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005
Together Sandbox: $0.074
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010
Together Sandbox: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020
Together Sandbox: $0.298

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.010 against $0.149 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Together Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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