Beam Sandboxes vs CreateOS Sandbox

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and CreateOS Sandbox costs $0.03616363 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. CreateOS Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

CreateOS Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Starting credit of 500 credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
CreateOS Sandbox: No
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.03616363
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.01159025
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.0001584 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Starting credit of 500 credits
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
CreateOS Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
CreateOS Sandbox: No limit
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
CreateOS Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
CreateOS Sandbox: No
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
CreateOS Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
CreateOS Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
CreateOS Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

License
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
CreateOS Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
CreateOS Sandbox: Enterprise only. Provider runs the control plane

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
CreateOS Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.059
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.119
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
CreateOS Sandbox: $0.237

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Beam Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.

CreateOS Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.119 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need ISO 27001.

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