Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime vs Beam Sandboxes

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

Updated Oct 23, 2026

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Hosts AI agents on AWS and runs each user session in its own microVM.

Isolation: MicroVM
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: 8 hours

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolated, secure environments for running untrusted code at scale.

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

Visit site Beam Sandboxes profile

What is different

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vCPU, per hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895; Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
RAM, per GiB-hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945; Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Storage: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates; Beam Sandboxes: Volumes free up to 1 TB, then $0.021 per GB per month. Snapshots included.
Paid plan from: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go; Beam Sandboxes: $20 / month
Billing: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only; Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Max session: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours; Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Concurrent sandboxes: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000; Beam Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Isolation: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: MicroVM; Beam Sandboxes: Container

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18 fields, at each provider's list price

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Beam Sandboxesbeam.cloud/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.0895; Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
RAM, per GiB-hour: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: $0.00945; Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Storage: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Session storage is free during preview. Code storage is billed at Amazon ECR or S3 rates; Beam Sandboxes: Volumes free up to 1 TB, then $0.021 per GB per month. Snapshots included.
Free tier: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Paid plan from: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Pay as you go; Beam Sandboxes: $20 / month
Billing: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Active CPU time only; Beam Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 8 hours; Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: After 15 minutes; Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: 2 vCPU · 8 GiB; Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Up to 5,000; Beam Sandboxes: Up to 1,000

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Python, TypeScript; Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK; Beam Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Beam Sandboxes: AGPL-3.0
BYOC: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime: Not listed; Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime

Beam Sandboxes

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

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime fits when

You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
You want the lower list price: $0.217 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

Beam Sandboxes fits when

You need GPUs.
A session must run longer than 8 hours.
You want an open-source platform (AGPL-3.0) that you can self-host.
You need snapshots.

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