Beam Sandboxes vs Sandbox as a Service
Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Sandbox as a Service costs $0.045 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Sandbox as a Service runs full VMs and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Beam Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
Sandbox as a Service
- Isolation
- Full VM
- Free tier
- $5 credit
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
6 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Beam Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Beam Sandboxesbeam
Sandbox as a Servicesandbox-as-a-service
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Sandbox as a Service: Included
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Free tier
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: $5 credit
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- Sandbox as a Service: Bundled machine time
Limits
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- Sandbox as a Service: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Up to 20
Platform
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Sandbox as a Service: Full VM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Sandbox as a Service:
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Developer
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Sandbox as a Service: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: MCP
Trust
- License
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
- BYOC
- Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
- Sandbox as a Service: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Beam Sandboxes
Sandbox as a Service
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.045
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.090
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
- Sandbox as a Service: $0.180
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Beam Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
- A session must run longer than 24 hours.
- You need pause and resume.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
Sandbox as a Service fits when
- You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
- You use MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.090 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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