Beam Sandboxes vs OpenPond Sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and OpenPond Sandboxes costs $0.072 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. OpenPond Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs.
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Beam Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
OpenPond Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Max session
- Not listed
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Beam Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Volumes free up to 1 TB, then $0.021 per GB per month. Snapshots included.
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: $20 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.072
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.0234
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Volumes free up to 1 TB, then $0.021 per GB per month. Snapshots included.
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.00012 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Free plan with limited monthly usage, 1 sandbox at a time
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: $20 / month
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $10 / month
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: After 15 minutes
- Largest sandbox
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Up to 10
Platform
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Beam Sandboxes:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- OpenPond Sandboxes:
Developer
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- OpenPond Sandboxes: TypeScript
- Integrations
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
Trust
- License
- Beam Sandboxes: AGPL-3.0
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Not listed
- BYOC
- Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
- OpenPond Sandboxes: Guided AWS install
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Beam Sandboxes
OpenPond Sandboxes
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.119
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.238
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
- OpenPond Sandboxes: $0.475
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 $0.238 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA.
OpenPond Sandboxes fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
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