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Beam vs Vast.ai

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What's good about...

Beam logo 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

Vast.ai logo Vast.ai

  • Budget cards to Blackwell, including the RTX PRO 6000 and B200
  • On-demand, interruptible and reserved rentals
  • SOC 2 Type II certified, with vetted datacenter hosts in Secure Cloud
  • Host reliability ratings and GPU performance benchmarks
  • REST API, CLI, Python SDK and coding agent plugins

Price comparison

How do Beam's prices compare against Vast.ai?

Block Storage

Beam Beam
$2.10 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 1 TB included
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Free egress allowance

Beam Beam
Free and unlimited
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Vast.ai logo Vast.ai Pricing Details

Hosts set their own rates. Compute is billed per second from prepaid credits. Storage charges continue while an instance is stopped, and bandwidth fees vary by host.

  • On-demand: Fixed rates for the offer's maximum duration.
  • Interruptible: Bid for capacity. Instances pause if you're outbid or an on-demand renter takes the machine.
  • Reserved: Prepay for a fixed term, with larger discounts for longer commitments.

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Beam Beam
Vast.ai Vast.ai
H100 $1.83 $2.67 B200 $4.11 $6.88 H200 $2.09 $3.09 RTX 5090 $0.72 $0.73

Billing Options

Beam Beam
On-DemandCustom
Vast.ai Vast.ai
On-DemandSpotReserved (1mo)Reserved (3mo)Reserved (6mo)Reserved (12mo)Reserved (24mo)

Available Models

Beam offers 10 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 11.

Beam Beam
H100(2) H200(2) A100(1) RTX PRO 6000(1) B200(2) L40S(1) B300(1) RTX A6000(1) RTX 5090(1) RTX 4090(1)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
H100(16) H200(6) A100(7) B200(8) B300(2) RTX 5090(21) RTX 4090(3) RTX 4080(1) RTX 5060 Ti(1) RTX PRO 4000(9)
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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 Vast.ai offer:

Service Beam Vast.ai
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions

Company details

Website
Beam Beam
www.beam.cloud
Vast.ai Vast.ai
vast.ai
Headquarters
Beam Beam
United States of America US flag
Vast.ai Vast.ai
United States of America US flag
Founded
Beam Beam
2021
Vast.ai Vast.ai
2018
Data Center Locations
Beam Beam
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Vast.ai Vast.ai
10
Example Customers
Beam Beam
Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase
Vast.ai Vast.ai
IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch

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Our data for Beam was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 11, 2026.