Beam

Name: Beam
Brand: Smartshare, Inc.

Container sandboxes with optional GPUs, filesystem and memory snapshots, started from Python or TypeScript and billed per millisecond per physical CPU core and GiB of memory.

Operated by Smartshare, Inc. www.beam.cloud Status: active[1] Checked 31 Oct 2026

Agent sandboxes

Beam Sandboxes

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Price: $0.135 /core (2 vCPU)-h; + $0.023 per GB-hour
1-hour session: ≥ $0.227; 2 vCPU / 4 GB · rank 20 of 26
Fleet month: ≥ $2,019; 50 × 8 h × 22 days
Billed on: Running time; per second
Isolation: Container; sessions up to Unlimited

What to know

$20/mo planThis price only applies on a plan of at least $20 a month.

Plans

Beam Sandboxes: plans
Plan	Price	Includes
Developer	$20 /month[1]	$20 of credits a month, 30 CPU containers, 5 GPU containers, 1 seat
Team	$89 /month[1]	Plus usage; 1,000 CPU containers, 50 GPU containers, 3 seats ($25 per extra seat)

Prices

Beam Sandboxes: prices per resource
Resource	Price	Per hour
per core (2 vCPU)	$0.0000375 /s[1]	$0.135
per GB of memory	$0.0000064 /s[1]	$0.023

Sandbox rates: $0.0000375/s per physical core (2 vCPU equivalent, about $0.135/h) and $0.0000064/s per GiB of RAM, billed per millisecond while the sandbox runs. The only size listed here is the pricing page's worked example (1 core / 8 GiB = $0.319/h).
Sandbox defaults are 1 CPU, 128 MiB of memory and a 600-second lifetime; GPUs can be attached (gpu, gpu_count), but no sandbox-specific GPU rate is published.
Filesystem snapshots become images for new sandboxes; memory snapshots capture processes and exposed ports and restore into new sandboxes.
"Sandboxes cold boot in one to three seconds" is a vendor claim from the sandbox page.
Beam also sells persistent VMs (no GPUs, browser desktop, SSH, pause/fork) at $0.0252/h per vCPU and $0.0054/h per GiB, billed per second, with a 50 GiB root disk; they are not part of this record.
Growth plan (1,000+ GPU containers, unlimited CPU containers) is priced on request. BYOC charges a management fee of $0.019/h per vCPU and $0.009/h per GB.
The open-source runtime behind Beam is Beta9; self-hosting it does not include every Beam Cloud feature.
No egress or bandwidth fees on any plan; snapshots are included.

Terms

Billing

Payment: Monthly plan with included usage[1]
Plan minimum: $20 a month[1]
Billing increment: Per second[1]
Minimum charge: unknown[1]Not published
Per-job fee: None[1]

Runtime

Billed on: Running time[1]
Isolation: Container[1]
Max session: Unlimited[1]
Concurrent sandboxes: 30[1]
Largest vCPU: unknown[1]No sandbox CPU maximum is published
Largest memory: unknown[1]No sandbox memory maximum is published

Lifecycle

Survives a stop: Nothing (ephemeral)[3]
Snapshots: Yes[3]
Pause and resume: unknown[3]Sandbox docs describe memory snapshots and restore, not pause; pause is documented for Beam VMs
Fork: Memory and processes[3]
Compute billed while stopped: unknown[3]Sandboxes have no paused state; billing runs while the sandbox runs
Auto-stop: after 10 min[3]
Start time (vendor claim): 3 s[3]

Capabilities

GPU: Yes[4]
Desktop: None[4]
Coding agents installed: None[4]
Agent prompt API: No[4]
SSH: unknown[4]SSH is documented for Beam VMs, not for sandboxes
Docker inside: Yes[4]
SDKs: Python, TypeScript, CLI, MCP[4]
SOC 2: Yes[4]

Storage and network

Disk included: unknown[1]No per-sandbox disk size published; account storage up to 1 TB is included
Extra disk: $0.021 per GB-month[1]
Snapshot storage: Free[1]
Egress: Free[1]

Platform

Regions: unknown[2]Not published for sandboxes; GPU pool offers list provider and region
Your cloud (BYOC): Yes[2]
Self-host: Yes[2]

Free allowance

Minutes a month: None[1]
Credit a month: None[1]
One-time credit: None[1]

Sources

1 beam.cloud/pricing · 31 Oct 2026
2 docs.beam.cloud/v2/self-hosting/overview · 31 Oct 2026
3 docs.beam.cloud/v2/sandbox/snapshots · 31 Oct 2026
4 docs.beam.cloud/v2/sandbox/overview · 31 Oct 2026

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