Beam Sandboxes vs OmniRun

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

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

OmniRun

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
OmniRun
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
OmniRun: Firecracker microVM
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
OmniRun: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
OmniRun: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
OmniRun: Not listed
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
OmniRun: Not listed
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
OmniRun: Not listed
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
OmniRun: Not listed
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
OmniRun: Not listed

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
OmniRun: Not listed
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
OmniRun: After 15 minutes
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
OmniRun: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
OmniRun: Up to 3

Platform

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

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
OmniRun
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
OmniRun: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
OmniRun: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
OmniRun: Not listed

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Beam Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

OmniRun fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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