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What's good about...

Beam logo Beam

  • Pay-per-millisecond billing, only charged when code is running
  • Sandbox snapshots for faster deployments
  • Autoscaling and deployment logs built-in
  • Supports custom Docker images

Microsoft Azure logo Azure

  • Integrations with the rest of Microsoft's products
  • Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to AI
  • Generous free tier, and compute savings plans available
  • 60+ datacenter locations around the world

Price comparison

How do Beam's prices compare against Azure?

VM Small

Closest config to 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM.
Beam Beam
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$6.13 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2)

VM Medium

Closest config to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
Beam Beam
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$86.87 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2)

VM Large

Closest config to 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (dedicated preferred).
Beam Beam
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$173.74 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2)

Block Storage

Closest config to 100+ GB SSD, 3,000+ IOPS, 100+ MB/s throughput, no snapshots.
Beam Beam
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$8.10 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Closest config to 1 TB stored, 100 GB in / 250 GB out, 1M GET, 100k PUT/POST.
Beam Beam
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$21.50 / mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Closest config to TCP, 1 node (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM), 200+ Mbps, 1,000 conn/sec, 1 TB processed/mo.
Beam Beam
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$23.25 / mo Standard

Managed PostgreSQL

Closest config to 1 node, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50+ GB storage, 10 GB read / 5 GB write per month.
Beam Beam
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)

Managed Redis®*

Closest config to 1 node, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 req/s, 1 KB avg request size.
Beam Beam
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)

Serverless 25M Executions

Closest config to 25M invocations, 150ms execution time, 512 MB memory.
Beam Beam
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Beam Beam
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Microsoft Azure Azure
100 GB / mo

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Beam Beam
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$87.00 $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America)

Beam logo Beam Pricing Details

Beam uses a pay-per-millisecond pricing model where you only pay when your code is running. CPU costs $0.190 per core, RAM costs $0.020 per GB, and file storage is included free of charge. There are no charges for cold starts or server spin-up time.

GPU Fleet Overview

Starting Price

Beam Beam
$1.61/hr
Microsoft Azure Azure
$0.09/hr

Billing Options

Beam Beam
On-Demand
Microsoft Azure Azure
On-DemandSpotReserved (36mo)Reserved (12mo)

Available Models

Beam offers 3 GPU models, while Azure offers 10.

Beam Beam
H100(1) RTX 4090(1) A10G(1)
Microsoft Azure Azure
H100(14) A100(20) H200(2) RTX Pro 6000(40) V100(4) A10(24) T4(16) GB200(2) MI300X(2) M60(12)

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Beam and Azure offer:

Service Beam Azure
Analytics
App Testing
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
Realtime Databases
Remote Config
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Beam Beam
www.beam.cloud
Microsoft Azure Azure
azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters
Beam Beam
United States of America
Microsoft Azure Azure
United States of America
Founded
Beam Beam
2021
Microsoft Azure Azure
2008
Data Center Locations
Beam Beam
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Microsoft Azure Azure
66
Example Customers
Beam Beam
Coke, Magellan, StratumAI, Geospy, Frase
Microsoft Azure Azure
General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

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Our data for Beam was last updated on Feb. 12, 2026, and for Azure on June 23, 2026.

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Thunder Compute
Our sponsor
NVIDIA H100 from $1.38/hr, A100 80GB from $0.78/hr, RTX A6000 from $0.27/hr
No commitments, billed per minute, SOC 2 and GDPR compliant
Hot swappable hardware, templates for ComfyUI and Ollama
One-click connection to VS Code or Cursor, simple CLI to connect without SSH
Try now