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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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
Beam Sandboxesbeam .cloud /pricing
CreateOS Sandboxcreateos .sh
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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