Hugging Face Sandboxes vs Watasu

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

Updated Oct 15, 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

Watasu

Isolated Linux sandboxes for AI agents, hosted in the EU.

Isolation: Not listed
Free tier: Free Basic plan
Max session: 24 hours

Visit site Watasu profile

What is different

1 field differs. The rest are the same or not listed.

Field

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Watasu

Billing: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time; Watasu: Per second

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18 fields, at each provider's list price

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

Watasuwatasu.io/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Hugging Face Sandboxes: $0.005; Watasu: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Included; Watasu: Not listed
Storage: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Watasu: Retained disks €0.10 per GiB per month while the sandbox is stopped. Checkpoints and templates €0.03 per GiB per month.
Free tier: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Watasu: Free Basic plan
Paid plan from: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Watasu: Not listed
Billing: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Bundled machine time; Watasu: Per second

Limits

Max session: Hugging Face Sandboxes: 24 hours; Watasu: 24 hours
Idle stop: Hugging Face Sandboxes: After 10 minutes; Watasu: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Watasu: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Watasu: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Full VM; Watasu: Not listed
GPU: Hugging Face Sandboxes:; Watasu: Not listed
Snapshots: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Watasu:
Pause and resume: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Watasu:

Developer

SDKs: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Python; Watasu: Not listed
Integrations: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Watasu: Not listed

Trust

License: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Watasu: Not listed
BYOC: Hugging Face Sandboxes: Not listed; Watasu: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Hugging Face Sandboxes

Watasu

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

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Hugging Face Sandboxes fits when

You need GPUs.

Watasu fits when

You need snapshots.
You need pause and resume.

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