Beam
vs
Google Cloud
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
- 40+ regions across 26 countries
- BigQuery, GKE and Gemini models on Vertex AI
- TPUs, plus Nvidia T4 up to 8x B200 nodes
- Automatic sustained use discounts on N1 and N2 VMs
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Beam | Google Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $6.79 /mo 2 vCPU (shared-core), 1 GB RAM (e2-micro) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $94.20 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (E2 custom) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $220.44 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (n4-highcpu-8) | |
| Block storage | $2.10 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 1 TB included | $7.89 /mo 100 GB (Hyperdisk Balanced) | 73% cheaper on Beam |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $42.13 /mo 1 TB | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $94.22 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD (Cloud SQL Enterprise) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $22.90 /mo 1.4 GB (Memorystore for Valkey, shared-core-nano) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $29.16 /mo Passthrough Network Load Balancer | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $44.66 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration (Cloud Run functions, 0.333 vCPU) | |
| Egress allowance | Free and unlimited | 1 GB / mo (Compute Engine), 100 GB / mo (Cloud Storage) | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | $120.00 /TB $0.12 / GB (Premium network) |
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 and Google Cloud each offer 10 GPU models. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Beam | Google Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
2 configs · 15 configs
|
$1.83 /GPU/hr On-demand | $11.07 /GPU/hr On-demand | 83% cheaper on Beam |
|
B200
2 configs · 3 configs
|
$4.11 /GPU/hr On-demand | $4.18 /GPU/hr Spot | Different terms |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config · 16 configs
|
$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | $4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 76% cheaper on Beam |
|
H200
2 configs · 3 configs
|
$2.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | $4.66 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | Different terms |
|
A100
1 config · 36 configs
|
$1.36 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.72 /GPU/hr On-demand | 63% cheaper on Beam |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | 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 |
|
L4
32 configs
|
-- | $0.32 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | Google Cloud only |
|
V100
36 configs
|
-- | $1.34 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | Google Cloud only |
Beam bills on-demand; Google Cloud bills on-demand, spot and reserved (12 or 36 months). 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 | Google Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | -- | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Yes |
| FedRAMP | -- | High |
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 | Google Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2021 | 2008 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | -- | 40 |
| Example customers | Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase | Shopify, Wayfair, Etsy, The Home Depot, Unilever, Lloyds Banking Group |
| Website | www.beam.cloud | cloud.google.com |
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Our data for Beam was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Google Cloud on Oct. 1, 2026.