Beam Sandboxes vs boxes.dev

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and boxes.dev costs $0.1875 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

boxes.dev

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
boxes.dev
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
boxes.dev: $0.1875
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
boxes.dev: Included
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
boxes.dev: $0.1875
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
boxes.dev: Included
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boxes.dev: Trial, $0, 20 hours of compute included
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boxes.dev: $19 / month
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
boxes.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
boxes.dev: Not listed
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boxes.dev: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
boxes.dev: Not listed
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
boxes.dev: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
boxes.dev:
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
boxes.dev:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
boxes.dev: Not listed
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed

Trust

License
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
boxes.dev: Not listed
BYOC
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
boxes.dev: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
boxes.dev
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
boxes.dev: $0.188
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
boxes.dev: $0.375
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
boxes.dev: $0.750

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Beam Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.227 against $0.375 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

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