Beam Sandboxes vs Sandbox0

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour. Sandbox0 bills memory only, at $0.015 per GiB-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Sandbox0 runs gVisor and has no session limit.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Sandbox0

Isolation
gVisor
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Sandbox0
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Sandbox0: $0.015
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Sandbox0: Memory only
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Sandbox0: gVisor
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Sandbox0: Included
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Sandbox0: $0.015
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Free
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Pay as you go
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Sandbox0: Memory only

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Sandbox0: No limit
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Sandbox0: gVisor
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Sandbox0: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Sandbox0:
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Sandbox0:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Sandbox0: Go, Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK

Trust

License
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Sandbox0: Apache-2.0
BYOC
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
Sandbox0: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Sandbox0
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Sandbox0: $0.030
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Sandbox0: $0.060
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Sandbox0: $0.120

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.

Sandbox0 fits when

  • You want an open-source platform (Apache-2.0) that you can self-host.
  • You use LangChain or the OpenAI Agents SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.060 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You want one rate for memory, with CPU included.

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