Beam Sandboxes vs Together Sandbox

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Together Sandbox costs $0.0446 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Together Sandbox runs Firecracker microVMs.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Together Sandbox

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Together Sandbox
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Together Sandbox: Firecracker microVM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Together Sandbox: $0.0446
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Together Sandbox: $0.0149
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Together Sandbox: Per second

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: 16 vCPU · 128 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Together Sandbox: Firecracker microVM
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Together Sandbox: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Together Sandbox:
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Together Sandbox:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Together Sandbox: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Together Sandbox: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Together Sandbox
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Together Sandbox: $0.074
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Together Sandbox: $0.149
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Together Sandbox: $0.298

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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.

Together Sandbox fits when

  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.149 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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