Beam Sandboxes vs BoxLite Cloud

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and BoxLite Cloud costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. BoxLite Cloud runs microVMs.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

BoxLite Cloud

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$100 credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
BoxLite Cloud: No
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
BoxLite Cloud: $0.0144
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: $0.00018 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: $100 credit
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Pay as you go
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
BoxLite Cloud: Per second

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: 4 vCPU · 32 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
BoxLite Cloud: MicroVM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
BoxLite Cloud: No
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
BoxLite Cloud:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
BoxLite Cloud: Python, JavaScript, Go
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed

Trust

License
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
BoxLite Cloud: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
BoxLite Cloud: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
BoxLite Cloud
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
BoxLite Cloud: $0.079
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
BoxLite Cloud: $0.158
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
BoxLite Cloud: $0.317

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

BoxLite Cloud fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.158 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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