AgentBay vs Beam Sandboxes

AgentBay costs $0.027 per vCPU-hour and Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour. AgentBay runs containers. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

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AgentBay

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free Basic plan
Max session
Not listed

Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

AgentBay
Beam Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
AgentBay: $0.027
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
RAM, per GiB-hour
AgentBay: $0.0113
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Storage
AgentBay: $0.000045 per GiB-hour after 100 free GiB
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
AgentBay: Free Basic plan
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
AgentBay: Pay as you go
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
AgentBay: Per second
Beam Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
AgentBay: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
AgentBay: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
AgentBay: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
AgentBay: Up to 200
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
AgentBay: Container
Beam Sandboxes: Container
GPU
AgentBay: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes:
Snapshots
AgentBay: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
AgentBay: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
AgentBay: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
AgentBay: MCP
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
AgentBay: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
AgentBay: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

AgentBay
Beam Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
AgentBay: $0.050
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
AgentBay: $0.099
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
AgentBay: $0.198
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

AgentBay fits when

  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.099 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Beam Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

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