Beam vs Theta EdgeCloud

What's good about each

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

Theta EdgeCloud

Datacenter H200, V100 and T4 machines, 1-4 GPUs
Consumer cards from a community fleet, priced per operator
Sharable persistent volumes that survive a stop and restart
Multi-node GPU clusters for distributed training
Inference APIs, dedicated model serving and Jupyter notebooks on the same account

Price comparison

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service	Beam	Theta EdgeCloud	Difference
Block storage	$2.10 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 1 TB included	-- Not listed
Egress allowance	Free and unlimited	-- Not listed

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 Theta EdgeCloud offers 18. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Beam	Theta EdgeCloud	Difference
H200 2 configs · 3 configs	$2.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	$3.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	43% cheaper on Beam
RTX 5090 1 config · 2 configs	$0.72 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand	10% cheaper on Theta EdgeCloud
H100 2 configs	$1.83 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Beam only
B300 1 config	-- On request	--	Beam only
B200 2 configs	$4.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Beam only
RTX PRO 6000 1 config	$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Beam only
V100 2 configs	--	$0.99 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5060 Ti 1 config	--	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5080 1 config	--	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
T4 2 configs	--	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only

All 10 GPUs on Beam All 18 GPUs on Theta EdgeCloud

Beam bills on-demand; Theta EdgeCloud bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Lyceum

NVIDIA H200 from $2.20/hr, B200 from $3.40/hr, B300 from $3.80/hr

Per-second billing with no minimum commitment or vendor lock-in

Scale to 8,000 GPUs over InfiniBand for distributed AI training

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Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Beam	Theta EdgeCloud
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Framework	Beam	Theta EdgeCloud
SOC 2	Type II	--
GDPR	Yes	--

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	Theta EdgeCloud
Founded	2021	2024
Headquarters	USA	USA
Locations	--	--
Example customers	Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase	KAIST, NTU Singapore, Houston Rockets
Website	www.beam.cloud	www.thetaedgecloud.com

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Our data for Beam was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Theta EdgeCloud on Oct. 1, 2026.