CreateOS Sandbox vs Hyperbeam
Hyperbeam is for products where people browse together: watch parties, co-browsing and embedded remote apps with synced audio and video. CreateOS Sandbox is for agent workloads that run code. The choice usually follows who is at the keyboard, a person or an agent.
Pricing at a Glance
CreateOS rates verified 17 October 2026. Hyperbeam pricing as published on 17 October 2026. Rates billed per GB rather than per GiB, or as bundled sizes, are quoted as published rather than converted.
CreateOS Sandbox
- Compute
- $0.0362 /vCPU-hr
- Memory
- $0.0116 /GiB-hr
Hyperbeam
10,000 participant-minutes per month are free, then $0.007 per additional participant-minute for HD video and audio, with automatic volume discounts, as of 17 October 2026.
Where CreateOS Sandbox Fits Better
What CreateOS Sandbox brings to this matchup, with a plain note on where Hyperbeam has the edge.
Billed by machine time, so cost does not depend on how many people are watching.
Agent-written code runs with a shell, files and managed processes inside the VM.
desktop:1 includes a computer-use API for agents to drive Chrome on an XFCE desktop.
Where Hyperbeam is strong
Real-time shared browsing with synchronised audio and video and multi-user control, aimed at human participants rather than headless automation.
Which to Pick
Pick CreateOS Sandbox if
- An agent, not a person, is driving the machine.
- The workload is code execution rather than streaming a browser.
- You want egress rules on what the machine can reach.
Pick Hyperbeam if
- You are adding co-browsing or watch parties to a web app or game.
- Many people need to see and control one browser at once.
- You need Unity WebGL or Desktop SDKs.
Head-to-Head Comparison
Every dimension side by side, checked on 17 October 2026 against each vendor's own docs and pricing pages. "Not published" means we could not find it on the vendor's pages, not that the feature is missing.
| Dimension | CreateOS Sandbox | Hyperbeam |
|---|---|---|
| What you get (browser vs full Linux machine) | Full Linux micro-VM; the desktop:1 image adds an XFCE desktop, Google Chrome and a computer-use API | Shared virtual computer (mainly Chromium) embedded in your web app via iframe |
| Isolation | Firecracker micro-VM with its own guest kernel, root filesystem and network identity | Not published |
| Session length | No lifetime cap; optional idle auto-pause from 60 s to 24 h, off by default | Absolute and inactive timeouts default to none; offline timeout default 3,600 s |
| Run arbitrary code | Yes: exec, shell, files and managed processes; devbox:1 ships Python 3.12, Node.js 24, Go, Rust and Docker | Built for human viewers; headless code execution not published |
| Outbound network | Open with no rules; deny-by-default once any host, IP, CIDR or wildcard rule exists, enforced on the host outside the VM | Not published |
| Billing | Per second: $0.03616363/vCPU-hr, $0.01159025/GiB-hr, storage $0.0001584/GB-hr; no per-GB egress price, 50 GiB bandwidth budget per sandbox | 10,000 free minutes per month, then $0.007 per participant-minute |
| Pause and resume | Pause saves disk, memory and CPU state; vCPU stops billing, memory and storage still bill | Optional encrypted Chrome profile in Amazon S3, deleted after three months unused; session save states listed |
| Interfaces | SDKs in TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, C# and Java (all but TypeScript pre-1.0), CLI, MCP server, REST API | REST API, JavaScript iframe SDK, Unity WebGL and Desktop SDKs |
Common Questions
Is Hyperbeam built for AI agents?
Not primarily. Hyperbeam targets human participants, with many people seeing and controlling one browser inside an embedded iframe. CreateOS Sandbox targets agents, and its desktop:1 image adds a computer-use API on top of Chrome and an XFCE desktop.
How does Hyperbeam charge?
Per participant-minute: 10,000 minutes a month are free, then $0.007 per additional participant-minute for HD video and audio, with automatic volume discounts. Pricing sits on its homepage, since the /pricing page returned 404.
Does Hyperbeam support GPU workloads?
Hyperbeam states it offers custom servers for GPU-intensive workloads with WebGL support, without naming a GPU model. CreateOS Sandbox has no GPU shapes, so GPU-heavy rendering points to Hyperbeam.
Sources
Checked 17 October 2026.
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