Beam Sandboxes vs Runloop
Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Runloop costs $0.108 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Runloop runs microVMs.
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Beam Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Beam Sandboxes
Runloop
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Runloop: MicroVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
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Runlooprunloop
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Runloop: $0.108
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Runloop: $0.0252
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: $0.00034236 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: $50 credit
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- Runloop: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- Runloop: Not listed
- Idle stop
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Runloop: MicroVM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Runloop: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Runloop:
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Runloop:
Developer
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Runloop: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Runloop: Not listed
- BYOC
- Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
- Runloop: Deploy to VPC, Enterprise plan
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Beam Sandboxes
Runloop
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
- Runloop: $0.158
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
- Runloop: $0.317
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
- Runloop: $0.634
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Beam Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- You want the lower list price: $0.227 against $0.317 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
Runloop fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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