Beam Sandboxes vs Vers

Beam Sandboxes costs $0.0675 per vCPU-hour and Vers costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. Beam Sandboxes runs containers, offers GPUs and has no session limit. Vers runs full VMs.

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Beam Sandboxes

Isolation
Container
Free tier
Not listed
Max session
No limit

Vers

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
Starting credit
Max session
Not listed

What is different

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

Beam Sandboxes
Vers
vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Vers: $0.04
Isolation
Beam Sandboxes: Container
Vers: Full VM
SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Vers: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.0675
Vers: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
Beam Sandboxes: $0.02304
Vers: Not listed
Storage
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Vers: Kept commits are billed. No rate on the pricing page.
Free tier
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Vers: Starting credit
Paid plan from
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Vers: Pay as you go
Billing
Beam Sandboxes: Per second
Vers: Per second

Limits

Max session
Beam Sandboxes: No limit
Vers: Not listed
Idle stop
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Vers: Not listed
Largest sandbox
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Vers: Not listed
Concurrent sandboxes
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Vers: Not listed

Platform

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

Developer

SDKs
Beam Sandboxes: Python, TypeScript
Vers: Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, Java, Ruby
Integrations
Beam Sandboxes: Not listed
Vers: Not listed

Trust

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

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Beam Sandboxes
Vers
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.114
Vers: Not listed
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.227
Vers: Not listed
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
Beam Sandboxes: $0.454
Vers: Not listed

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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.

Vers fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.

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