# Beam

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.
- Status: Active [1]
- Website: https://www.beam.cloud
- Categories: Agent sandboxes
- Checked: 31 Oct 2026

## Beam Sandboxes (Agent sandboxes)

- 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 plan: This price only applies on a plan of at least $20 a month.

### Plans

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

### Billing

- Payment: Monthly plan with included usage [1]
- Plan minimum: $20 a month [1]
- Billing increment: Per second [1]
- Minimum charge: unknown (Not published) [1]
- 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 (No sandbox CPU maximum is published) [1]
- Largest memory: unknown (No sandbox memory maximum is published) [1]

### Lifecycle

- Survives a stop: Nothing (ephemeral) [3]
- Snapshots: Yes [3]
- Pause and resume: unknown (Sandbox docs describe memory snapshots and restore, not pause; pause is documented for Beam VMs) [3]
- Fork: Memory and processes [3]
- Compute billed while stopped: unknown (Sandboxes have no paused state; billing runs while the sandbox runs) [3]
- 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 (SSH is documented for Beam VMs, not for sandboxes) [4]
- Docker inside: Yes [4]
- SDKs: Python, TypeScript, CLI, MCP [4]
- SOC 2: Yes [4]

### Storage and network

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

### Platform

- Regions: unknown (Not published for sandboxes; GPU pool offers list provider and region) [2]
- 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]

### Prices

| 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.

## Sources

[1] https://www.beam.cloud/pricing (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[2] https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/self-hosting/overview (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[3] https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/sandbox/snapshots (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[4] https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/sandbox/overview (checked 31 Oct 2026)