What's good about...

Beam logo 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

Gcore logo Gcore

  • Competitive pricing with pay-as-you-go model
  • Over 210 global PoPs across six continents
  • Free DDoS protection, WAF, and egress traffic
  • Offers NVIDIA GPUs such as A100, H100, and L40S

Price comparison

How do Beam's prices compare against Gcore?

VM Small

Beam Beam
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Gcore Gcore
$17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g1-standard-1-2)

VM Medium

Beam Beam
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Gcore Gcore
$70.49 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g1-standard-4-8)

VM Large

Beam Beam
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Gcore Gcore
$141.06 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g1-standard-8-16)

Block Storage

Beam Beam
$2.10 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 1 TB included
Gcore Gcore
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Object Storage

Beam Beam
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Gcore Gcore
$47.24 /mo 1 TB, 250k write requests

Load Balancer

Beam Beam
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Gcore Gcore
$17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2)

Serverless 25M Executions

Beam Beam
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Gcore Gcore
$7.65 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt)

Free egress allowance

Beam Beam
Free and unlimited
Gcore Gcore
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Beam Beam
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Gcore Gcore
Free for most services Server egress is free. CDN includes 1 TB, then €0.030/GB

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Beam Beam
Gcore Gcore
H100 $1.83 $1.77 H200 $2.09 $3.17 A100 $1.36 $1.46 L40S $0.76 $1.25

Billing Options

Beam Beam
On-DemandCustom
Gcore Gcore
On-DemandCustom

Available Models

Beam offers 10 GPU models, while Gcore offers 6.

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

Company details

Website
Headquarters
Beam Beam
United States of America US flag
Gcore Gcore
Luxembourg LU flag
Founded
Beam Beam
2021
Gcore Gcore
2014
Data Center Locations
Beam Beam
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Gcore Gcore
53
Example Customers
Beam Beam
Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase
Gcore Gcore
Xsolla, jsDelivr, Orange, Avast

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Our data for Beam was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Gcore on Aug. 31, 2026.