Beam
vs
Cloudflare
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
- Every service runs in every datacenter, 300+ cities
- No egress fees on R2 object storage or Workers
- Free tier covers CDN, DNS, WAF and DDoS mitigation
- One platform for serverless compute, storage, SQL and vector search
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Beam | Cloudflare | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block storage | $2.10 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 1 TB included | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $15.81 /mo 1 TB (R2 Standard) | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $82.50 /mo 25M invocations, 150 ms CPU time | |
| Egress allowance | Free and unlimited | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | Free for most services |
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 track no GPU listings from Cloudflare. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Beam | Cloudflare | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
2 configs
|
$1.83 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | Beam only |
|
B200
2 configs
|
$4.11 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config
|
$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
H200
2 configs
|
$2.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
RTX 5090
1 config
|
$0.72 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
A100
1 config
|
$1.36 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
RTX 4090
1 config
|
$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
L40S
1 config
|
$0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
RTX A6000
1 config
|
$0.54 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
Beam bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Beam | Cloudflare |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | -- | Enterprise only |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Level 1, some products |
| FedRAMP | -- | High, Cloudflare for Government |
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 | Beam | Cloudflare |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2021 | 2009 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | -- | 312 |
| Example customers | Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase | Shopify, DoorDash, Discord, Intercom, Zendesk |
| Website | www.beam.cloud | cloudflare.com |
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Our data for Beam was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Cloudflare on Sept. 18, 2026.