Beam vs Namespace

Sandbox Benchmark Comparison · Updated October 30, 2026

Beam
Faster in
0of 1 benchmark
#24 of 31 in Sandbox Provider Rating
vs
Namespace
Faster in
1of 1 benchmark
#20 of 31 in Sandbox Provider Rating

Namespace was faster in the only shared sandbox benchmark.

Head to head

  • DAXTotal workload time · lower is better
    Namespace faster2.08x
    Beam
    96.13s
    Namespace
    46.21s

DAX

October 30, 2026
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Beam

100% success
Median
96.13s
Beam DAX results

Namespace

100% success
Median
46.21s
Namespace DAX results

Median total workload time over time

7 runs · September 16, 2026 to October 30, 2026
BeamNamespace

Cost per DAX run

Beam

Per-second wall clock
$0.024per run
96.13s median at $0.9086/hr

$0.0000375/core-s (1 core = 2 vCPU, so 4 cores) + $0.0000064/GiB-s.

Source pricing page

Namespace

Per-minute unit minutes
$0.012per run
46.21s median at $0.7200/hr

8 vCPU/16 GB shape = 8 unit-min/min at the pay-as-you-go rate of $0.0015/unit-min. Team/Business plans include prepaid minutes at an effective $0.001/unit-min ($0.48/hr). Bills in 1-minute minimums with 15-second rounding.

Source pricing page
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Methodology

  • One workload, every provider. The same script, payload, and model hit every provider, addressed the way its own API expects. Nobody gets a tuned or special path.
  • Repeated on a schedule. Every suite runs many iterations per provider, automated on a recurring schedule, so results reflect steady state rather than one lucky request.
  • Raw results published. Every run is committed as JSON to the public benchmarks repo, next to the code that produced it. Nothing is cherry-picked or held back.
  • How this comparison is built. Each benchmark compares the two providers' medians; results within 5% count as roughly even. A comparison is published when both providers have at least one successful run in the same benchmark from the last 30 days. A benchmark only gets a verdict when both providers completed at least 50% of its runs. If a provider’s latest run of a benchmark failed, its most recent successful run from that window is used instead.
Read the full methodology →Raw results on GitHub ↗

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Namespace was faster in the only shared sandbox benchmark. In DAX (October 30, 2026), Namespace had a median total workload time of 46.21s versus 96.13s for Beam, 2.08x faster.

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