Beam Sandboxes vs Brimble Sandboxes

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Brimble Sandboxes runs gVisor and limits a session to 6 hours.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Brimble Sandboxes

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Max session
6 hours

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Volumes free up to 1 TB, then $0.021 per GB per month. Snapshots included.
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: $20 / month
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Volumes free up to 1 TB, then $0.021 per GB per month. Snapshots included.
Brimble Sandboxes: Snapshot storage and persistent volumes bill at storage rates
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: 7-day Developer plan trial, card required
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: $20 / month
Brimble Sandboxes: $3 / month
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Brimble Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Brimble Sandboxes: 6 hours
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Brimble Sandboxes: Up to 15

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Brimble Sandboxes: gVisor
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Brimble Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Brimble Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Brimble Sandboxes: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, Go
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Brimble Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Beam Sandboxes: AGPL-3.0
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Brimble Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Brimble Sandboxes: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Beam Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • A session must run longer than 6 hours.
  • You want an open-source platform (AGPL-3.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Brimble Sandboxes fits when

  • You use MCP or Claude Code.

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