Beam Sandboxes vs Upstash Box

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Upstash Box runs containers.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Upstash Box

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Upstash Box
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Upstash Box: Included
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Upstash Box: Included
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Upstash Box: Container
GPU
Beam Sandboxes:
Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots
Beam Sandboxes:
Upstash Box:
Pause and resume
Beam Sandboxes:
Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC
Beam Sandboxes: In your AWS, GCP, or Azure account
Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Upstash Box
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Upstash Box: $0.400

Compute only, at list rates.

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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.

Upstash Box fits when

  • You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.200 against $0.227 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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