Beam Sandboxes vs exe.dev

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. exe.dev runs full VMs.

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

exe.dev

Disposable VMs for AI agents, billed by the second.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session: Not listed

Visit site exe.dev profile

What is different

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

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Beam Sandboxes

exe.dev

vCPU, per hour: Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675; exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour: Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304; exe.dev: Included
Billing: Beam Sandboxes: Per second; exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Isolation: Beam Sandboxes: Container; exe.dev: Full VM

Full comparison

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Beam Sandboxesbeam.cloud/pricing

exe.devexe.dev/pricing

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675; exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour: Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304; exe.dev: Included
Storage: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing: Beam Sandboxes: Per second; exe.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session: Beam Sandboxes: No limit; exe.dev: Not listed
Idle stop: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; exe.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; exe.dev: Not listed

Platform

Isolation: Beam Sandboxes: Container; exe.dev: Full VM
GPU: Beam Sandboxes:; exe.dev: Not listed
Snapshots: Beam Sandboxes:; exe.dev: Not listed
Pause and resume: Beam Sandboxes:; exe.dev: Not listed

Developer

SDKs: Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript; exe.dev: Not listed
Integrations: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; exe.dev: Not listed

Trust

License: Beam Sandboxes: Not listed; exe.dev: Not listed
BYOC: Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account; exe.dev: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

Beam Sandboxes

exe.dev

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: Beam Sandboxes: $0.114; exe.dev: $0.053
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: Beam Sandboxes: $0.227; exe.dev: $0.105
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: Beam Sandboxes: $0.454; exe.dev: $0.210

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 SOC 2 Type II.

exe.dev fits when

You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
You want the lower list price: $0.105 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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