Beam Sandboxes vs E2B
Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and E2B costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. E2B runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Beam Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
E2B
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- $100 credit, one time
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Beam Sandboxes
E2B
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- E2B: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- E2B: $0.0162
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- E2B: 24 hours
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- E2B: No
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Beam Sandboxesbeam
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- E2B: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- E2B: $0.0162
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- E2B: Free
- Free tier
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- E2B: $100 credit, one time
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- E2B: $150 / month
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- E2B: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- E2B: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- E2B: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- E2B: 8 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- E2B: Up to 1,100
Platform
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- E2B: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- E2B: No
- Snapshots
- Beam Sandboxes:
- E2B:
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- E2B:
Developer
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- E2B: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- E2B: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- E2B: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
- E2B: Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Beam Sandboxes
E2B
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
- E2B: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
- E2B: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
- E2B: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Beam Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
E2B fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
- You use LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Vercel AI SDK or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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