Agent Sandbox vs Beam Sandboxes

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

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Agent Sandbox

Isolation
Container
Free tier
$10 credit with a Google sign-in
Max session
Not listed

Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Agent Sandbox
Beam Sandboxes
SDKs
Agent Sandbox: Python
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
RAM, per GiB-hour
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Storage
Agent Sandbox: $0.0005 per MB for output files
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Agent Sandbox: $10 credit with a Google sign-in
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Agent Sandbox: Per second
Beam Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Agent Sandbox: After 5 minutes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Agent Sandbox: Python
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Agent Sandbox
Beam Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Agent Sandbox: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

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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