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Beam vs Google Cloud

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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

Google Cloud logo Google Cloud

  • Extensive range of managed services with a focus on big data and machine learning
  • BigQuery and Google Kubernetes Engine are widely considered industry-leading solutions
  • 40+ data centers around the world

Price comparison

How do Beam's prices compare against Google Cloud?

VM Small

Beam Beam
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Google Cloud Google Cloud
$20.49 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)

VM Medium

Beam Beam
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Google Cloud Google Cloud
$90.15 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)

VM Large

Beam Beam
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Google Cloud Google Cloud
$179.87 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)

Block Storage

Beam Beam
$2.10 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 1 TB included
Google Cloud Google Cloud
$4.10 /mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Beam Beam
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Google Cloud Google Cloud
$24.93 /mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Beam Beam
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Google Cloud Google Cloud
$29.44 /mo

Managed PostgreSQL

Beam Beam
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Google Cloud Google Cloud
$93.60 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage

Managed Redis®*

Beam Beam
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Google Cloud Google Cloud
$35.28 /mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)

Serverless 25M Executions

Beam Beam
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Google Cloud Google Cloud
$47.62 /mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Beam Beam
Free and unlimited
Google Cloud Google Cloud
Depends on service

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Beam Beam
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Google Cloud Google Cloud
$120.00 $0.12 / GB (Premium network)

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Beam Beam
Google Cloud Google Cloud
H100 $1.83 $11.07 B200 $4.11 $16.27 H200 $2.09 $10.62 RTX PRO 6000 $1.09 $4.50

Billing Options

Beam Beam
On-DemandCustom
Google Cloud Google Cloud
On-DemandSpotReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)

Available Models

Beam and Google Cloud each offer 10 GPU models.

Beam Beam
H100(2) H200(2) A100(1) RTX PRO 6000(1) B200(2) L40S(1) B300(1) RTX A6000(1) RTX 5090(1) RTX 4090(1)
Google Cloud Google Cloud
H100(24) H200(4) A100(36) RTX PRO 6000(16) B200(4) V100(48) L4(32) T4(48) P100(36) P4(36)

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 Google Cloud offer:

Service Beam Google Cloud
Analytics
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Performance Monitoring
Push Notifications
Python Notebooks
Realtime Databases
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Beam Beam
www.beam.cloud
Google Cloud Google Cloud
cloud.google.com
Headquarters
Beam Beam
United States of America US flag
Google Cloud Google Cloud
United States of America US flag
Founded
Beam Beam
2021
Google Cloud Google Cloud
2008
Data Center Locations
Beam Beam
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Google Cloud Google Cloud
40
Example Customers
Beam Beam
Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase
Google Cloud Google Cloud
PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

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Our data for Beam was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Google Cloud on Sept. 11, 2026.