Beam Sandboxes vs Sailboxes

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Sailboxes costs $0.015 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Sailboxes runs full VMs and has no session limit.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Sailboxes

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$5 credit every month
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Sailboxes
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Sailboxes: $0.008
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Sailboxes: Full VM
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Sailboxes: $0.015
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Sailboxes: $0.008
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: $0.0007 per GiB-hour
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: $5 credit every month
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Sailboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Sailboxes: No limit
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Up to 5,000

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Sailboxes: Full VM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Sailboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Sailboxes:
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Sailboxes:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Sailboxes: Python, TypeScript, Rust
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sailboxes: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Sailboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Sailboxes: $0.031
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Sailboxes: $0.062
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Sailboxes: $0.124

Compute only, at list rates.

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

Beam Sandboxes fits when

  • You need GPUs.
  • You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

Sailboxes fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.062 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need SOC 2 and HIPAA.

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