Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox vs Beam Sandboxes

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

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Managed microVM sandboxes for AI agent workloads.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox profile

Beam Sandboxes

Cloud sandboxes for running AI-generated code.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: No limit

Visit site Beam Sandboxes profile

What is different

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

Field

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Beam Sandboxes

Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; Beam Sandboxes: Container
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; Beam Sandboxes:

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandboxalibabacloud.com/help/en/cs/user-guide/agent-sandboxalibabacloud.com

Beam Sandboxesbeam.cloud/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
RAM, per GiB-hour: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Storage: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: First 30 GiB free while running, extra at the cloud disk price; Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Pay as you go; Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Per second; Beam Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: Not listed; Beam Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: MicroVM; Beam Sandboxes: Container
GPU: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox: No; Beam Sandboxes:
Snapshots: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; Beam Sandboxes:
Pause and resume: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox:; Beam Sandboxes:

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox

Beam Sandboxes

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

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox fits when

You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Beam Sandboxes fits when

You need GPUs.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
You need SOC 2 Type II.

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