Beam Sandboxes vs Solari

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Solari costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Solari runs Cloud Hypervisor microVMs and limits a session to 24 hours.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Solari

Isolation
Cloud Hypervisor microVM
Free tier
$3 credit every month
Max session
24 hours

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Solari
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Volumes free up to 1 TB, then $0.021 per GB per month. Snapshots included.
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Solari: Up to 10
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Solari: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Solari: $0.0165
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Volumes free up to 1 TB, then $0.021 per GB per month. Snapshots included.
Solari: Snapshots $0.05 per GB-month, the first 10 GB per organization free, from October 1, 2026.
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: $3 credit every month
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: $20 / month
Solari: $20 / month
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Solari: Per second

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Solari: 24 hours
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
Solari: Up to 10

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Solari: Cloud Hypervisor microVM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Solari: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Solari:
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Solari:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Solari: TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Solari: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Beam Sandboxes: AGPL-3.0
Solari: Not listed
BYOC
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
Solari: Enterprise plan, in your own VPC

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Solari
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Solari: $0.086
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Solari: $0.171
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Solari: $0.342

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 want an open-source platform (AGPL-3.0) that you can self-host.
  • You need SOC 2 Type II.

Solari fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.171 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need a desktop in the sandbox.

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