Beam
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveServerless GPU cloud with per-second billing for inference endpoints, training jobs and sandboxes
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Paid
- Paid options from
- $20/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Developer plan is $20/month and includes $20 of usage credit each month; Team is $89/month plus usage and Growth is quote-only. Compute is metered per second (serverless RTX 4090 $0.000192/s, H100 $0.000972/s), with flat hourly on-demand machines and a per-vCPU fee for BYOC.
Use tool ↗About Beam
Beam runs Python, TypeScript or Go workloads on cloud GPUs and CPUs: serverless inference endpoints and task queues billed only while code runs, sandboxes and persistent Linux VMs for agents, flat-priced on-demand GPU machines, and a bring-your-own-cloud mode that orchestrates compute in a customer's AWS, GCP or Azure account. Serverless RTX 4090 time costs about $0.69 an hour of GPU, and on-demand H100 machines start near $1.83 an hour. Accounts start on a $20/month Developer plan that includes $20 of usage credit.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Plans: Developer $20/month with $20 in credits each month, Team $89/month plus usage, Growth contact us; serverless RTX 4090 $0.000192/sec, H100 $0.000972/sec; on-demand H100 from $1.83/hr (15 October 2026)beam.cloud ↗
- Home page footer reads © 2026 Smartshare, Inc. and lists SOC 2 Type II (15 October 2026)beam.cloud ↗
Is Beam legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Jul 31, 2019 (7 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar GoDaddy, looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 28, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Smartshare, Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Beam
Beam suits developers who want serverless GPU endpoints, agent sandboxes and on-demand machines behind one SDK without running their own Kubernetes. The free monthly credit is gone, so even a hobby project now starts at $20 a month, which is credited back as usage; weigh it as a startup-stage vendor whose quotas and prices move faster than the hyperscalers'.
Pros
- Per-second serverless billing with scale-to-zero
- Developer plan fee comes back as $20 of monthly usage credit
- Python, TypeScript and Go SDKs plus REST access
- BYOC mode lets existing cloud credits pay for the compute
Cons
- No free plan; the entry plan is $20/month
- Developer plan caps GPU concurrency at 5 containers
- Team features gate at $89/month plus usage
Best for
- Indie ML developers shipping inference endpoints without DevOps
- Agent builders needing sandboxed code execution or persistent VMs
- Teams with cloud credits who want Beam to orchestrate inside their own AWS, GCP or Azure account
Not for
- Compliance-heavy enterprises needing contractual capacity guarantees
- Hobbyists who want a free tier to experiment on
Watch out: The legal entity on the site is Smartshare, Inc. — Beam is a brand name, worth knowing when contracts or invoices name the company.