Beam
vs
Oracle 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
- 10 TB of free egress each month
- Same compute and storage prices in every region
- Flexible shapes with CPU and memory sized separately
- Oracle Database inside AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Always Free tier with Arm VMs and databases
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Beam | Oracle Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $3.33 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex, 12.5% burstable) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $44.64 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $89.28 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | |
| Block storage | $2.10 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 1 TB included | $4.25 /mo 100 GB (Balanced) | 51% cheaper on Beam |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $26.49 /mo 1 TB | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $119.65 /mo 2 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.E5.Flex) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $27.94 /mo 2 GB RAM (OCI Cache, Valkey) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | Free Network Load Balancer | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $31.57 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress allowance | Free and unlimited | 10 TB / mo | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | $8.50 /TB $0.0085 / GB (North America, Europe) |
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 Oracle Cloud offers 15. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Beam | Oracle Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
2 configs · 1 config
|
$1.83 /GPU/hr On-demand | $10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 82% cheaper on Beam |
|
B300
1 config · 1 config
|
-- On request | $15.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | |
|
B200
2 configs · 1 config
|
$4.11 /GPU/hr On-demand | $14.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 71% cheaper on Beam |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config · 1 config
|
$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | $4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 76% cheaper on Beam |
|
H200
2 configs · 1 config
|
$2.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | $10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 79% cheaper on Beam |
|
A100
1 config · 2 configs
|
$1.36 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.05 /GPU/hr On-demand | 55% cheaper on Beam |
|
L40S
1 config · 1 config
|
$0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 78% cheaper on Beam |
|
RTX 5090
1 config
|
$0.72 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
RTX 4090
1 config
|
$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
GB200
1 config
|
-- | $16.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
Beam bills on-demand; Oracle Cloud 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.
| Framework | Beam | Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Yes |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | -- | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Yes |
| FedRAMP | -- | High, US Government Cloud |
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 | Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2021 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | -- | 45 |
| Example customers | Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase | Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia |
| Website | www.beam.cloud | www.oracle.com |
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Our data for Beam was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Oracle Cloud on Oct. 1, 2026.