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
Runcrate
- Per-second GPU billing with no minimum commitment
- Eight global regions across North America, Europe, and Asia
- Full root access with SSH, Docker, and custom images
- OpenAI-compatible inference API for open-source models
Price comparison
How do Beam's prices compare against Runcrate?
Block Storage
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Free egress allowance
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Runcrate Pricing Details
Per-second billing on GPU compute with no minimum commitment: stop the instance to stop the meter. Inference is billed per token against a public rate card. Reserved and dedicated capacity is available with volume discounts on monthly commitments.
GPU Fleet Overview
Same GPU, Both Providers
On-demand price per GPU-hour.
Billing Options
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Available Models
Beam offers 10 GPU models, while Runcrate offers 16.
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 Runcrate offer:
Company details
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| Website | www.beam.cloud | www.runcrate.ai |
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| Founded | 2021 | 2024 |
| Data Center Locations | -- | -- |
| 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 Runcrate on Sept. 11, 2026.