Beam
vs
Gcore
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
- Cloud regions on six continents
- Free egress from virtual machines and bare metal
- Per-minute billing, only while a VM runs
- Nvidia GPUs from L40S up to GB300 NVL72 racks
- CDN and DDoS protection on the same account
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Beam | Gcore | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $11.72 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g3a-standard-1-2) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $46.91 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g3a-standard-4-8) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $93.83 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g3a-standard-8-16) | |
| Block storage | $2.10 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 1 TB included | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $52.26 /mo 1 TB (Standard) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $17.15 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2) | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $7.46 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt) | |
| Egress allowance | Free and unlimited | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | Free from VMs, billed from Object Storage |
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 Gcore offers 6. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Beam | Gcore | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
2 configs · 9 configs
|
$1.83 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand | 6% cheaper on Gcore |
|
B300
1 config · 1 config
|
-- On request | $6.78 /GPU/hr On-demand | |
|
H200
2 configs · 1 config
|
$2.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.08 /GPU/hr On-demand | 32% cheaper on Beam |
|
A100
1 config · 5 configs
|
$1.36 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.42 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
|
L40S
1 config · 4 configs
|
$0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.22 /GPU/hr On-demand | 38% cheaper on Beam |
|
B200
2 configs
|
$4.11 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config
|
$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
RTX 5090
1 config
|
$0.72 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
RTX 4090
1 config
|
$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
GB300
1 config
|
-- | -- On request | Gcore only |
Beam bills on-demand; Gcore 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.
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 | Gcore |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2021 | 2014 |
| Headquarters | USA | Luxembourg |
| Locations | -- | 33 |
| Example customers | Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase | Microsoft, ProSieben, Higgsfield, Leonardo AI, Funcom |
| Website | www.beam.cloud | gcore.com |
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Our data for Beam was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Gcore on Sept. 18, 2026.