Beam Sandboxes vs Dedalus Machines

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Dedalus Machines costs $0.04536 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Dedalus Machines runs full VMs.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Dedalus Machines

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$20 one-time sign-up credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Dedalus Machines
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Dedalus Machines: Full VM
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Dedalus Machines: $0.04536
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Dedalus Machines: $0.01458
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: $20 one-time sign-up credit
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: $20 / month
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Dedalus Machines: Per second

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Dedalus Machines: Full VM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Dedalus Machines:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Dedalus Machines: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Not listed

Trust

License
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Dedalus Machines: Not listed
BYOC
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
Dedalus Machines: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Dedalus Machines
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Dedalus Machines: $0.075
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Dedalus Machines: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Dedalus Machines: $0.298

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Beam Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

Dedalus Machines fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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