Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter vs Beam Sandboxes

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter costs $0.0895 per vCPU-hour and Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter runs microVMs and limits a session to 8 hours. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
8 hours

Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter
Beam Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.0895
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.00945
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Active CPU time only
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: 8 hours
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: MicroVM
Beam Sandboxes: Container
SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Python
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

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Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.0895
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
RAM, per GiB-hour
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.00945
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Storage
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Free tier
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Billing
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Active CPU time only
Beam Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: 8 hours
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Up to 1,000
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: MicroVM
Beam Sandboxes: Container
GPU
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes:
Snapshots
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Python
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: LangChain
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: Not listed
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter
Beam Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.108
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.217
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter: $0.434
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use LangChain.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.217 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

Beam Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • A session must run longer than 8 hours.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

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