What's good about...
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
Railway
- Billed by the second on actual CPU and memory utilization
- App Sleeping reduces costs on low-traffic workloads
- Self-owned hardware across US, EU, and Asia
- Template directory with a 15% kickback for template authors, 25% with active support
Price comparison
How do Beam's prices compare against Railway?
VM Small
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VM Medium
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VM Large
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Block Storage
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Object Storage
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Load Balancer
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Managed PostgreSQL
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Managed Redis®*
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Free egress allowance
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance
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GPU Fleet Overview
Billing Options
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On-DemandCustom
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Available Models
Beam offers 10 GPU models.
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H100
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Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Beam and Railway offer:
Company details
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|---|---|---|
| Website | www.beam.cloud | railway.com |
| Headquarters |
United States of America 
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United States of America
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| Founded | 2021 | 2020 |
| Data Center Locations | -- | 4 |
| Example Customers | Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase | -- |
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Our data for Beam was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Railway on Aug. 24, 2026.