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Beam Sandboxes vs Namespace Devboxes

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Namespace Devboxes costs $0.06 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Namespace Devboxes runs full VMs.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit
Visit siteBeam Sandboxes profile

Namespace Devboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
30-day free trial
Max session
Not listed
Visit siteNamespace Devboxes profile

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Namespace Devboxes
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Beam Sandboxesbeam.cloud/pricing
Namespace Devboxesnamespace.so

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Namespace Devboxes: $0.06
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Namespace Devboxes: Included
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: $0.20 per GB-month for storage used
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: 30-day free trial
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Namespace Devboxes: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Namespace Devboxes: Full VM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Namespace Devboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Namespace Devboxes: TypeScript
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Namespace Devboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Namespace Devboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Namespace Devboxes: $0.060
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Namespace Devboxes: $0.120
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Namespace Devboxes: $0.240

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 need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

Namespace Devboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.120 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.
  • You need SOC 2.

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