Beam Sandboxes vs Islo Sandboxes

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Islo Sandboxes costs $0.07 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Islo Sandboxes runs microVMs.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Islo Sandboxes

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
Starting credit, no card required
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Islo Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Islo Sandboxes: $0.07
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Islo Sandboxes: $0.04
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Starting credit, no card required
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Islo Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Islo Sandboxes: MicroVM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Islo Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Islo Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Islo Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Claude Code

Trust

License
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Islo Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
Islo Sandboxes: Agent computers run in your VPC.

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Islo Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Islo Sandboxes: $0.150
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Islo Sandboxes: $0.300
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Islo Sandboxes: $0.600

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 want the lower list price: $0.227 against $0.300 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

Islo Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use Claude Code.

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