Beam Sandboxes vs Phonebox

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Phonebox limits a session to 3 hours.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Phonebox

Isolation
Not listed
Free tier
$2 starter credit, one time, no card
Max session
3 hours

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Phonebox
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Phonebox: Bundled machine time
Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Phonebox: 3 hours
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Phonebox: TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Phonebox: Not listed
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Phonebox: Not listed
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Phonebox: $2 starter credit, one time, no card
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Phonebox: Pay as you go
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Phonebox: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Phonebox: 3 hours
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Phonebox: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Phonebox: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Phonebox: Up to 5

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Phonebox: Not listed
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Phonebox: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Phonebox: Not listed
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Phonebox:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Phonebox: TypeScript
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Phonebox: MCP

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

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

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Beam Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • A session must run longer than 3 hours.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Phonebox fits when

  • You use MCP.

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