Beam Sandboxes vs Freestyle VMs
Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Freestyle VMs costs $0.04032 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Freestyle VMs runs full VMs.
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Beam Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
Freestyle VMs
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- Free plan, $0 forever
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
4 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Beam Sandboxes
Freestyle VMs
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Beam Sandboxesbeam
Freestyle VMsfreestyle
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Freestyle VMs: $0.04032
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Freestyle VMs: $0.0129
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: $0.000086 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Free plan, $0 forever
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: $50 / month
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- Freestyle VMs: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Up to 400
Platform
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Freestyle VMs: Full VM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Freestyle VMs:
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Freestyle VMs:
Developer
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Freestyle VMs: JavaScript
- Integrations
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK
Trust
- License
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
- BYOC
- Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
- Freestyle VMs: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Beam Sandboxes
Freestyle VMs
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
- Freestyle VMs: $0.066
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
- Freestyle VMs: $0.132
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
- Freestyle VMs: $0.264
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Beam Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
Freestyle VMs fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or the Claude Agent SDK.
- You want the lower list price: $0.132 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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