Beam Sandboxes vs Caged
Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Caged costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Caged runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 4 hours.
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Beam Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
Caged
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Max session
- 4 hours
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Beam Sandboxes
Caged
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Caged: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Caged: Included
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- Caged: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- Caged: 4 hours
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Beam Sandboxesbeam
Cagedcaged
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Caged: $0.06
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Caged: Included
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: Free
- Free tier
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: Free plan, 5 sandboxes a day
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: $29 / month
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- Caged: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- Caged: 4 hours
- Idle stop
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: Up to 5
Platform
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Caged: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Caged: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Caged: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Caged: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Caged: Not listed
- Integrations
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: MCP
Trust
- License
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Caged: Not listed
- BYOC
- Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
- Caged: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Beam Sandboxes
Caged
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
- Caged: $0.060
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
- Caged: $0.120
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
- Caged: $0.240
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 4 hours.
- You need snapshots.
- You need pause and resume.
Caged fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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