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Beam (sandbox) vs Fly Machines

Beam (sandbox) and Fly Machines have no comparable captured rates — both render unranked in our engine, so no computed verdict exists. Compare their published plans directly via each row's source links.

Monthly Cost Across Realistic Benchmarks

100 hr × 1 vCPU / 2 GiB
Beam (sandbox): $11.36 Fly Machines: unranked
Not comparable — missing captured rates
500 hr × 2 vCPU / 4 GiB
Beam (sandbox): $113.58 Fly Machines: unranked
Not comparable — missing captured rates
2,000 hr × 4 vCPU / 8 GiB
Beam (sandbox): $908.64 Fly Machines: unranked
Not comparable — missing captured rates

Rate Card Snapshot

Vendor$/vCPU-hr$/GiB-hrBilling granularityConcurrency note
Beam (sandbox)$0.0675$0.0230per 0.001sNo self-serve concurrency cap published at capture time.
Fly Machines—incl.per-second—

Fit Notes

  • Beam (sandbox) — Skip if you want the biggest platform — young product; fine for browser/computer-use sandboxes, thinner on compliance and regions than E2B or Modal.
  • Fly Machines — Skip if you need a single per-vCPU+per-GiB price — Fly sells bundled presets that don’t decompose into our two-axis model; compare preset totals directly.

Beam (sandbox)

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Fly Machines

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is cheaper, Beam (sandbox) or Fly Machines?

Beam (sandbox) and Fly Machines have no comparable captured rates — both render unranked in our engine, so no computed verdict exists. Compare their published plans directly via each row's source links.

How were these Beam (sandbox) vs Fly Machines costs computed?

Both vendors run identical workload profiles (sandbox-hours × vCPU/RAM) through the same engine using each vendor's captured USD list rates; the full methodology is on the agent-sandbox-pricing tool page.