Beam Sandboxes vs Celesto Cloud
Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Celesto Cloud costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Celesto Cloud runs microVMs.
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Beam Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
Celesto Cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
5 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Beam Sandboxes
Celesto Cloud
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Celesto Cloud: $0.015
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Celesto Cloud: Included
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Beam Sandboxesbeam
Celesto Cloudcelesto
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Celesto Cloud: $0.015
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Celesto Cloud: Included
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Celesto Cloud: Free
- Free tier
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Celesto Cloud: $5 runtime credit, one time, 30 days
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Celesto Cloud: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- Celesto Cloud: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- Celesto Cloud: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Celesto Cloud: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Celesto Cloud: 8 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Celesto Cloud: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Celesto Cloud: MicroVM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Celesto Cloud: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Celesto Cloud:
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Celesto Cloud:
Developer
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Celesto Cloud: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Celesto Cloud: MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Celesto Cloud: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
- Celesto Cloud: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Beam Sandboxes
Celesto Cloud
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
- Celesto Cloud: $0.015
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
- Celesto Cloud: $0.030
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
- Celesto Cloud: $0.060
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Beam Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
Celesto Cloud fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0).
- You use MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.030 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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