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Beam Cloud pricing
Beam Cloud publishes 7 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $89/month
- Model
- Freemium with pay-per-millisecond usage charges
- Tiers
- 7
- Free tier
- Yes
Beam Cloud plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Team | $89/month | 4 | +$89/month, 4 more features |
| Growth | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
| Serverless GPUs | On request | 1 | Priced on request |
| Sandboxes | On request | 1 | Priced on request |
| On-Demand Machines | On request | 1 | Priced on request |
| Storage | On request | 2 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Developer
FreeThe entry tier. It covers $30 monthly free credits, 5 gpu containers, 30 cpu containers, community support, no upfront commitment.
Team
$89/monthOver Developer, this tier adds:
- $30 monthly free credits included
- 50 GPU containers, 1,000 CPU containers
- 3 seats included, $25 per additional
- Live chat support
Growth
On requestOver Team, this tier adds:
- 1,000+ GPU containers
- Unlimited CPU containers
- Unlimited seats
- Private Slack support
Serverless GPUs
On requestOver Growth, this tier adds:
- RTX 4090: $0.00019/sec
Sandboxes
On requestOver Serverless GPUs, this tier adds:
- 1-core system: $0.319/hour
On-Demand Machines
On requestOver Sandboxes, this tier adds:
- H100 from $1.74/hour
Storage
On requestOver On-Demand Machines, this tier adds:
- Free up to 1TB
- $0.021/GB for additional storage
Where Beam Cloud stops being free
Developer, Free
- $30 monthly free credits
- 5 GPU containers, 30 CPU containers
- Community support
- No upfront commitment
Team, $89/month
The first thing you pay for:
- $30 monthly free credits included
- 50 GPU containers, 1,000 CPU containers
- 3 seats included, $25 per additional
- Live chat support
What the product covers
The full Beam Cloud feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Sub-second cold starts
- Inference endpoints
- Task queues
- Sandboxes
- Massive parallelization
Infrastructure
- Multi-cloud support
- Global distribution
Developer
- Python SDK
People bring Beam Cloud in for deploying ml models with minimal latency and setup time, large-scale batch processing across thousands of concurrent tasks, cost-effective inference serving with bursty workloads, multi-cloud ai deployments with global low-latency access, serverless ai development for rapid experimentation. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Beam Cloud are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud
Too few cloud tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beam Cloud (this page) | Free, then $89/month | Freemium with pay-per-millisecond usage charges | - | |
| Zipkin | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Beam Cloud |
| HAProxy | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Beam Cloud |
| Thanos | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Beam Cloud |
| Flux | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Beam Cloud |
| Kustomize | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Beam Cloud |
| VictoriaMetrics | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Beam Cloud |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Beam Cloud badges page.
Before you pay for Beam Cloud
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 7 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Beam Cloud runs on cloud, python, and is published by Beam Cloud. The full record is on the Beam Cloud review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Beam Cloud pricing questions
- How much does Beam Cloud cost?
- Beam Cloud publishes 7 tiers, from Free for Developer up to On request for Storage. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Beam Cloud have a free plan?
- Yes. The Developer tier costs nothing and covers $30 monthly free credits, 5 gpu containers, 30 cpu containers, community support. Paying starts at $89/month for Team.
- What is the difference between Developer and Team on Beam Cloud?
- Team costs $89/month against Free, and adds $30 monthly free credits included, 50 gpu containers, 1,000 cpu containers, 3 seats included, $25 per additional, live chat support.
- Is the Storage plan on Beam Cloud worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is free up to 1tb, $0.021/gb for additional storage. It costs On request against $89/month for Team. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Beam Cloud have a free tier: Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux, Kustomize.
- What am I actually paying for with Beam Cloud?
- The record lists 8 features across 3 areas: core, infrastructure, developer. In practice it is brought in for deploying ml models with minimal latency and setup time, large-scale batch processing across thousands of concurrent tasks, cost-effective inference serving with bursty workloads.
- Does Beam Cloud charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 7 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Beam Cloud prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Beam Cloud against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Beam Cloud covering price, platforms and features.