Beam Sandboxes vs Prized Sandboxes

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Prized Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Prized Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Prized Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$30 credit, one time
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Prized Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Prized Sandboxes: No

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Prized Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0125
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: $0.0001 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: $30 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Prized Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Prized Sandboxes: 24 hours
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: 32 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Prized Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Prized Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Prized Sandboxes: No
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Prized Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Prized Sandboxes:

Developer

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

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Prized Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Prized Sandboxes: $0.065
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Prized Sandboxes: $0.130
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Prized Sandboxes: $0.260

Compute only, at list rates.

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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 24 hours.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.

Prized Sandboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.130 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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