Beam
vs
Cerebrium
Beam and Cerebrium both bill serverless GPU workloads at sub-second granularity, while Beam additionally rents flat-rate on-demand machines and reserved InfiniBand clusters.
What's good about each
- 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
- Recurring monthly credit on every plan
- Per-second billing, with no charge for idle GPUs
- Cold starts of 2-4 seconds via memory and GPU snapshots
- SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR and ISO 27001 certified
- Ten GPU types, from T4 to B200
- Region pinning for data residency, on US and EU capacity
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Beam | Cerebrium | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $22.73 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (CPU only) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $113.94 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CPU only) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $227.89 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU only) | |
| Block storage | $2.10 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 1 TB included | $5.00 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB included | 2.4x more expensive on Cerebrium |
| Egress allowance | Free and unlimited | -- 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, while Cerebrium offers 9. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Beam | Cerebrium | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
2 configs · 4 configs
|
$1.83 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | 46% cheaper on Beam |
|
B200
2 configs · 4 configs
|
$4.11 /GPU/hr On-demand | $6.01 /GPU/hr On-demand | 32% cheaper on Beam |
|
H200
2 configs · 4 configs
|
$2.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | $4.20 /GPU/hr On-demand | 2x more expensive on Cerebrium |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config · 4 configs
|
$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 2.3x more expensive on Cerebrium |
|
A100
1 config · 8 configs
|
$1.36 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 32% cheaper on Beam |
|
L40S
1 config · 4 configs
|
$0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.95 /GPU/hr On-demand | 2.6x more expensive on Cerebrium |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | Beam only |
|
RTX 5090
1 config
|
$0.72 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
L4
4 configs
|
-- | $0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | Cerebrium only |
|
T4
4 configs
|
-- | $0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand | Cerebrium only |
Beam bills on-demand; Cerebrium bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
| Service | Beam | Cerebrium |
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers | ||
| Serverless Cron Jobs | ||
| Serverless Functions |
Company details
| Fact | Beam | Cerebrium |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2021 | 2021 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | -- | 3 |
| Example customers | Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase | Tavus, Deepgram, Resemble AI |
| Website | www.beam.cloud | www.cerebrium.ai |
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Our data for Beam was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Cerebrium on Sept. 11, 2026.