Beam Sandboxes vs Superserve
Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Superserve costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Superserve runs Firecracker microVMs and has no session limit.
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Beam Sandboxes
- Isolation
- Container
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
Superserve
- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Max session
- No limit
What is different
3 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.
Beam Sandboxes
Superserve
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Superserve: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Superserve: $0.0162
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Superserve: Firecracker microVM
Full comparison
18 fields, at each provider's list price
Beam Sandboxesbeam
Superservesuperserve
Pricing
- vCPU, per hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
- Superserve: $0.0504
- RAM, per GiB-hour
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
- Superserve: $0.0162
- Storage
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Superserve: $0.000108 per GiB-hour
- Free tier
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Superserve: Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Superserve: Pay as you go
- Billing
- Beam Sandboxes: Per second
- Superserve: Per second
Limits
- Max session
- Beam Sandboxes: No limit
- Superserve: No limit
- Idle stop
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Superserve: Not listed
- Largest sandbox
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Superserve: 2 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Superserve: Not listed
Platform
- Isolation
- Beam Sandboxes: Container
- Superserve: Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Superserve: Not listed
- Snapshots
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Superserve:
- Pause and resume
- Beam Sandboxes:
- Superserve:
Developer
- SDKs
- Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
- Superserve: Python, TypeScript
- Integrations
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Superserve: Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP
Trust
- License
- Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
- Superserve: Not listed
- BYOC
- Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
- Superserve:
Hourly cost
One sandbox running for one hour
Beam Sandboxes
Superserve
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
- Superserve: $0.083
- 2 vCPU · 4 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
- Superserve: $0.166
- 4 vCPU · 8 GiB
- Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
- Superserve: $0.331
Compute only, at list rates.
Open the calculatorWhich one fits
Based on the fields above
Beam Sandboxes fits when
- You need GPUs.
Superserve fits when
- You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
- You use the Claude Agent SDK, LangChain, the OpenAI Agents SDK or MCP.
- You want the lower list price: $0.166 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
- You need a desktop in the sandbox.
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