Beam Sandboxes vs BoxCompute
Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and BoxCompute costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. BoxCompute runs full VMs and limits a session to 42 hours.
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Beam Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
BoxCompute
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Max session
- 42 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Beam Sandboxes
BoxCompute
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- BoxCompute: Included
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- BoxCompute: Full VM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Beam Sandboxesbeam
BoxComputeboxcompute
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- BoxCompute: $0.10
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- BoxCompute: Included
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Free tier
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- BoxCompute: $10 credit, one time, valid 14 days
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- BoxCompute: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- BoxCompute: 42 hours
- Idle stop
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- BoxCompute: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- BoxCompute: 1.5 vCPU · 3 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- BoxCompute: Full VM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Beam Sandboxes:
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- BoxCompute:
Developer
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- BoxCompute: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- BoxCompute: Not listed
- BYOC
- Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
- BoxCompute: Enterprise pilot on your hardware or cloud account
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Beam Sandboxes
BoxCompute
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
- BoxCompute: $0.100
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
- BoxCompute: $0.200
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
- BoxCompute: $0.400
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Beam Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 42 hours.
- You need snapshots.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
BoxCompute fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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