Atlas Cloud
vs
Beam
What's good about each
- Fully sovereign infrastructure hosted in Iceland
- Free ingress and egress traffic
- Tier 3 data center, ISO 27001 certified
- Self-service provisioning via UI, CLI, API, Terraform, and Ansible
- Pay-per-millisecond billing, only while code is running
- Sub-second cold starts from memory snapshots
- No egress or bandwidth fees on any plan
- Runs in your own AWS, GCP or Azure account
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Atlas Cloud | Beam | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $77.20 /mo 1 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 20 GiB storage (a4) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $148.47 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 40 GiB storage (a5) | $289.08 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 50 GB disk · Billed per second while running | 49% cheaper on Atlas Cloud |
| Large VM | $296.93 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GiB RAM, 160 GiB storage (a7) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $11.55 /mo 100 GiB Block Storage | $2.10 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 1 TB included | 82% cheaper on Beam |
| Object storage | $101.35 /mo 1 TiB stored, S3-compatible | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | Both ingress and egress are free. Unlimited free egress | Free and unlimited | |
| Egress | Free Egress is always free | -- Not listed |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Beam offers 10 GPU models. We don't currently list GPU prices for Atlas Cloud.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Atlas Cloud | Beam |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2025 | 2021 |
| Headquarters | Iceland | USA |
| Locations | 1 | -- |
| Example customers | -- | Coke, Ogilvy, Magellan AI, Raven, EdgeImpulse, Frase |
| Website | www.atlascloud.is | www.beam.cloud |
Alternatives to consider
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Our data for Atlas Cloud was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Beam on Oct. 21, 2026.