Beam Sandboxes vs StateSet Sandbox
Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and StateSet Sandbox costs $0.0055 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. StateSet Sandbox runs gVisor and limits a session to 24 hours.
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Beam Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
StateSet Sandbox
- Isolation
- gVisor
- Free tier
- $25 trial credit, no card
- Max session
- 24 hours
What is different
7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Beam Sandboxes
StateSet Sandbox
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: $20 / month
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Beam Sandboxesbeam
StateSet Sandboxsandbox
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.0055
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.00075
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Volumes free up to 1 TB, then $0.021 per GB per month. Snapshots included.
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Free tier
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: $25 trial credit, no card
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: $20 / month
- StateSet Sandbox: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- StateSet Sandbox: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- StateSet Sandbox: 24 hours
- Idle stop
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Up to 1,000
- StateSet Sandbox: Up to 200
Platform
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- StateSet Sandbox: gVisor
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Beam Sandboxes:
- StateSet Sandbox:
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- StateSet Sandbox:
Developer
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- StateSet Sandbox: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Integrations
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- StateSet Sandbox: Claude Code, MCP
Trust
- License
- Beam Sandboxes: AGPL-3.0
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
- BYOC
- Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
- StateSet Sandbox: Not listed
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Beam Sandboxes
StateSet Sandbox
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.007
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.014
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
- StateSet Sandbox: $0.028
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 want an open-source platform (AGPL-3.0) that you can self-host.
- You need the sandboxes in your own cloud account.
StateSet Sandbox fits when
- You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
- You use Claude Code or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.014 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
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