Beam Sandboxes vs microsandbox cloud
Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and microsandbox cloud costs $0.05 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. microsandbox cloud runs microVMs.
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Beam Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
microsandbox cloud
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Beam Sandboxes
microsandbox cloud
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- microsandbox cloud: No
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- microsandbox cloud: No
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Beam Sandboxesbeam
microsandbox cloudmicrosandbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- microsandbox cloud: $0.05
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0162
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Free plan, 5 computer-hours a month
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: $49 / month
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- microsandbox cloud: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Up to 25,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- microsandbox cloud: MicroVM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- microsandbox cloud: No
- Snapshots
- Beam Sandboxes:
- microsandbox cloud:
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- microsandbox cloud: No
Developer
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- microsandbox cloud: Python, TypeScript, Rust, Go, Ruby
- Integrations
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- microsandbox cloud: Apache-2.0
- BYOC
- Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
- microsandbox cloud: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Beam Sandboxes
microsandbox cloud
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
- microsandbox cloud: $0.082
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
- microsandbox cloud: $0.165
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
- microsandbox cloud: $0.330
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Beam Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
- You need SOC 2 Type II.
microsandbox cloud 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 want the lower list price: $0.165 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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