Beam Sandboxes vs Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents costs $0.0994 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Microsoft Foundry hosted agents runs microVMs.
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Beam Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- Isolation
- MicroVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Beam Sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: $20 / month
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Beam Sandboxesbeam
Microsoft Foundry hosted agentsazure
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0994
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.0118
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Volumes free up to 1 TB, then $0.021 per GB per month. Snapshots included.
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Free tier
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: $20 / month
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Up to 2,000
Platform
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: MicroVM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents:
Developer
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP, OpenAI Agents SDK
Trust
- License
- Beam Sandboxes: AGPL-3.0
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
- BYOC
- Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Beam Sandboxes
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.123
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.246
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
- Microsoft Foundry hosted agents: $0.492
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Beam Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want an open-source platform (AGPL-3.0) that you can self-host.
- You want the lower list price: $0.227 against $0.246 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need snapshots.
Microsoft Foundry hosted agents fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, MCP or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
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