Beam Sandboxes vs Containarium Cloud

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Containarium Cloud costs $0.02 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Containarium Cloud runs containers.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

Beam Sandboxes

Cloud sandboxes for running AI-generated code.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: Not listed
Max session: No limit

Visit site Beam Sandboxes profile

Containarium Cloud

Hosted Linux boxes for AI agents, reached over SSH.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: Free tier
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Containarium Cloud profile

What is different

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

Field

Beam Sandboxes

Containarium Cloud

vCPU, per hour: Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675; Containarium Cloud: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour: Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304; Containarium Cloud: Included
Billing: Beam Sandboxes: Per second; Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Beam Sandboxesbeam.cloud/pricing

Containarium Cloudcontainarium.dev/llms.txtcontainarium.dev

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675; Containarium Cloud: $0.02
RAM, per GiB-hour: Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304; Containarium Cloud: Included
Storage: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Free tier: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: Free tier
Paid plan from: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Billing: Beam Sandboxes: Per second; Containarium Cloud: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Beam Sandboxes: No limit; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Idle stop: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Beam Sandboxes: Container; Containarium Cloud: Container
GPU: Beam Sandboxes:; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Snapshots: Beam Sandboxes:; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Pause and resume: Beam Sandboxes:; Containarium Cloud: Not listed

Developer

SDKs: Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript; Containarium Cloud: Not listed
Integrations: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; Containarium Cloud: MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Beam Sandboxes

Containarium Cloud

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Beam Sandboxes: $0.114; Containarium Cloud: $0.020
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Beam Sandboxes: $0.227; Containarium Cloud: $0.040
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Beam Sandboxes: $0.454; Containarium Cloud: $0.080

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Beam Sandboxes fits when

You need GPUs.
You need snapshots.
You need pause and resume.
You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Containarium Cloud fits when

You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
You use MCP.
You want the lower list price: $0.040 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need ISO 27001.

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