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
Price comparison
How do Beam's prices compare against Salad?
Block Storage
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Free egress allowance
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Salad Pricing Details
Salad bills per second while an instance runs, and charges nothing while a container group allocates or pulls its image.
GPU container groups are priced per GPU per hour at one of four priority levels, vCPU and RAM included. CPU-only groups bill per vCPU and per GB. Credits are prepaid, with volume discounts of 2-10%.
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 Salad offers 35.
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 Salad offer:
Company details
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| Website | www.beam.cloud | salad.com |
| Headquarters |
United States of America 
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| Founded | 2021 | 2018 |
| Data Center Locations | -- | -- |
| Example Customers | Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase | Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai |
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Our data for Beam was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.