Beam Sandboxes vs Tenki Sandbox

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Tenki Sandbox costs $0.0504 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Tenki Sandbox runs full VMs.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Tenki Sandbox

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
$100 credit, one time
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Tenki Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Tenki Sandbox: Full VM
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0504
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Tenki Sandbox: $0.0162
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: $0.000108 per GiB-hour after 5 free GiB
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: $100 credit, one time
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: $200 / month
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Tenki Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Up to 100

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Tenki Sandbox: Full VM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Tenki Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Tenki Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Tenki Sandbox: Python, TypeScript, Go
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed
BYOC
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
Tenki Sandbox: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Tenki Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Tenki Sandbox: $0.083
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Tenki Sandbox: $0.166
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Tenki Sandbox: $0.331

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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.

Tenki Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You use MCP or Claude Code.
  • 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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