What's good about...
Beam
- 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
Fly.io
- Excellent tooling and developer experience
- Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
- Per-second billing, with a 40% discount for reserved compute blocks
- Anycast networking and global load balancing included at no extra cost
Price comparison
How do Beam's prices compare against Fly.io?
VM Small
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VM Medium
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VM Large
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Block Storage
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Object Storage
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Load Balancer
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Managed PostgreSQL
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Managed Redis®*
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Free egress allowance
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Fly.io
1 TB of egress beyond allowance
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Fly.io
GPU Fleet Overview
Billing Options
Beam
On-DemandCustom
Fly.io
Available Models
Beam offers 10 GPU models.
Beam
H100
Fly.io
Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Beam and Fly.io offer:
Company details
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Beam
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Fly.io
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|---|---|---|
| Website | www.beam.cloud | fly.io |
| Headquarters |
United States of America 
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United States of America
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| Founded | 2021 | 2017 |
| Data Center Locations | -- | 18 |
| Example Customers | Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase |
Website
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Headquarters
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Founded
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Data Center Locations
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Example Customers
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Our data for Beam was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Fly.io on Aug. 24, 2026.