Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Unikraft Cloud

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

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Isolated cloud machines for running AI-generated code.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: 24 hours

Visit site Hugging Face Sandboxes profile

Unikraft Cloud

MicroVM sandboxes that start in under 10 ms.

Isolation: Firecracker microVM
Free tier: Hobby plan, free forever
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Unikraft Cloud profile

What is different

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

Field

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Unikraft Cloud

Isolation: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM; Unikraft Cloud: Firecracker microVM
SDKs: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python; Unikraft Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Hugging Face Sandboxeshuggingface.co/docs/hub/jobs-pricinghuggingface.co

Unikraft Cloudunikraft.com/pricingunikraft.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005; Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included; Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Storage: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Free tier: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Unikraft Cloud: Hobby plan, free forever
Paid plan from: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Unikraft Cloud: $39 / month
Billing: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time; Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

Limits

Max session: Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours; Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop: Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes; Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Unikraft Cloud: Up to 24

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python; Unikraft Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Go
Integrations: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

Trust

License: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
BYOC: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Unikraft Cloud: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Unikraft Cloud

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005; Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.010; Unikraft Cloud: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.020; Unikraft Cloud: Not listed

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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.

Unikraft Cloud fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You need snapshots.
You need pause and resume.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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