Beam Sandboxes vs Lizard Sandboxes

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Lizard Sandboxes costs $0.0081 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Lizard Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Lizard Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.0081
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Lizard Sandboxes: Included
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Local disk is in the rate. Persistent Volumes $0.14 per GB a month
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: 7-day trial with $5 in trial credits
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: $19 / month
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Lizard Sandboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Lizard Sandboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Lizard Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Lizard Sandboxes:
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Lizard Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Lizard Sandboxes: TypeScript, Python
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Trust

License
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
Lizard Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Lizard Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.008
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.016
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Lizard Sandboxes: $0.032

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Which 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.

Lizard Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.016 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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