Beam Alternatives
Open-source serverless GPU cloud with sub-second cold starts and auto-scaling
Beam is a serverless cloud platform for AI inference, sandboxes, and background jobs.
Explore 18 alternatives to Beam across 1 category. Updated October 2026.
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System1 Models
Hosted open decision models behind a Jev-compatible API, with an EU-only tier and a lower-cost Peer-to-Peer tier
$0.019 per 1M input tokens (s1-fast), output free
Lium
GPU rental marketplace where independent providers list verified NVIDIA hosts, billed per second
From $0.06/GPU-hour (RTX 3060, 15 Oct 2026)
NanoGPT
One OpenAI-compatible API for 600+ models, with text billed at provider list prices
Pay per prompt, from $0.10
Top Beam alternatives at a glance
- Replicate. Run and fine-tune open-source models. Deploy custom models at scale. All with one line of code.
- Baseten. AI inference platform for deploying and serving ML models with autoscaling and optimized infrastructure
- Cerebrium. Serverless GPU infrastructure for deploying AI models with sub-5 second cold starts
- fal. Build the next generation of creativity with fal. Lightning fast inference.
- Simplismart. Deploy and serve open-source and custom models via API, on dedicated GPUs, or in your own cloud
Compare Beam with its alternatives
| Product | Pricing Model | Free Tier | Open Source | Hosting | HQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beam | Pay-per-use | ✓ | ✓ | Cloud + Self-hosted | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| Replicate | Pay-per-use | — | — | Cloud | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| Baseten | Pay-per-use | ✓ | — | Cloud + Self-hosted | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| Cerebrium | Pay-per-use | ✓ | — | Cloud | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| fal | Pay-per-use | ✓ | — | Cloud | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| Simplismart | — | — | — | Cloud + Self-hosted | ๐ฎ๐ณ India |
| Modal | Pay-per-use | ✓ | — | Cloud | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| BentoML | — | ✓ | ✓ | Cloud + Self-hosted | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| DeepInfra | Pay-per-use | ✓ | — | Cloud | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| Lyceum | Pay-per-use | — | — | Cloud | ๐ฉ๐ช Germany |
| RunPod | Pay-per-use | — | — | Cloud | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| Together AI | Pay-per-use | — | — | Cloud + Self-hosted | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| Varion | — | ✓ | — | — | ๐ฑ๐น Lithuania |
| Runware | Pay-per-use | ✓ | — | Cloud | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| Hostnot GPU | Pay-per-use | — | — | Cloud | ๐ฆ๐ช AE |
| Inceptron | Pay-per-use | — | — | Cloud | ๐ธ๐ช Sweden |
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