Beam Sandboxes vs boat

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

boat

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Free trial with 25 hours
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
boat
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
boat: $0.009
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
boat: Included
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
boat: Bundled machine time
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
boat: Full VM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
boat: No
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
boat: $0.009
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
boat: Included
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boat: Free
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boat: Free trial with 25 hours
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boat: $20 / month
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
boat: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
boat: No limit
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boat: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boat: Up to 2,000

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
boat: Full VM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
boat: No
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
boat:
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
boat:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boat: MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
boat
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
boat: $0.009
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
boat: $0.018
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
boat: $0.036

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Beam Sandboxes fits when

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

boat fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use MCP.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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