Serverless compute: read the guide
Scanned 14 Oct 2026 · Schema v5 · features v21
- From
- $89/mo
Usage-based compute billed by millisecond; monthly workspace plans; hourly reserved machines and BYOC management fees.
- Free tier
- Not documented
Developer workspace $0/month plus usage. No recurring $30 credits published on current pricing page; prepaid workspaces need credits.
- Isolation
- Kata / gVisor
hardened or user-space kernel
- Regions
- 2
United States (default) · Provider/region offered by reserved pools
- Capabilities
- 31 / 61
3 partial · 27 fail · 0 not assessed
- Agent readiness
- 10/11 · 9/11
read · drive, pre-login surface
Advertised for
Sandboxes · Serverless inference endpoints · Hosted model inference catalog · Task queues · Scheduled functions · Container services and Pods · Persistent CPU VMs · GPU training · Bot framework
Built for
Developers, then technical
- · Python decorators, CLI and public REST API
- · Deploy Dockerfiles and sandbox workloads
01 Pricing Usage-based compute billed by millisecond; monthly workspace plans; hourly reserved machines and BYOC management fees.
| Tier | EntryDeveloper | Team | TopGrowth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0/month plus usage | $89/month plus usage | Contact us |
| Seats | 1 | 3 | — |
| Storage | 1000 GB | 1000 GB | 1000 GB |
| Transfer overage | $0/GB | $0/GB | $0/GB |
| Storage overage | $0.021/GB | $0.021/GB | $0.021/GB |
| vCPU hours overage | $0.0225/h | $0.0225/h | $0.0225/h |
| Memory gb hours overage | $0.00756/h | $0.00756/h | $0.00756/h |
| Seats overage | — | $25/seat | — |
Free tier: Developer workspace $0/month plus usage. No recurring $30 credits published on current pricing page; prepaid workspaces need credits.
CPU physical-core-second (2 vCPU/core), GiB-second, GPU-second; reserved machine-hour; storage GB-month.·Card required: unconfirmed·beam.cloud
Overages: CPU-only $0.0000125/core-second and $0.0000021/GiB-second; sandbox $0.0000375/core-second and $0.0000064/GiB-second. GPU-attached CPU/RAM use different rates. No bandwidth fees.
02 Website design Desktop public website · assessed 14 Oct 2026
Complete assessment.
Dark GPU-platform marketing with floating hardware badges, fine grid lines and blue actions; documentation switches to a bright three-column reading layout.
- Technical illustration
- Corporate
- Landing page: captured
- Pricing: captured
- Docs: captured
03 Runtime Each fact carries its source; dots show confidence. Open a row for the evidence.
Isolation & lifecycle
Resources & limits
Access
Network & secrets
Placement & use
04 Capabilities 31 pass · 3 partial · 27 fail · 61 of 61 assessed
- Supported — Documented on the public surface and verified.
- Partially supported — Exists with caveats: gated, thin, or enterprise-only.
- Not supported — Checked and not offered.
- Not assessed — Scanned before this capability was tracked. Not a lack.
Compute & storage 8/11
Networking & delivery 4/9
Developer access 7/10
AI & agents 2/12
Data 1/4
Platform & operations 2/6
Organisation & security 7/9
Proposed, not verified
Capabilities the scan saw but the registry does not track yet. A key is admitted only once two distinct products exhibit it. These are not scored.
- Task Queuestask-queues
“Task Queues are great for deploying resource-intensive functions on Beam.” docs.beam.cloud
05 Agent readiness Pre-login surface · counts, not a grade
Can an agent read it?
parse-ability · docs, metadata, machine-readable surfaces
10/11
9 full · 2 partial · 91% of applicable checks
- llms.txtSupported
- llms-full.txtSupported
- robots.txt AI policyPartially supported
- JSON-LDSupported
- SitemapSupported
- Meta tagsSupported
- Markdown negotiationSupported
- Content efficiencyPartially supported
- Docs discoverableSupported
- Machine-readable pricingSupported
- No anti-bot wallSupported
Can an agent drive it?
act-ability · APIs, SDKs, MCP, credentials, webhooks
9/11
7 full · 4 partial · 82% of applicable checks
- Public APISupported
- OpenAPI specSupported
- MCP serverSupported
- SDK packagesSupported
- Auth documentedSupported
- Self-serve credentialsPartially supported
- WebhooksSupported
- CLI toolSupported
- Error modelPartially supported
- Rate limits documentedPartially supported
- Agent config filesPartially supported
06 Coding harnesses Which agents and IDEs are documented to run here
Advertised integrations 4
- Cursor AnysphereSupported
- Claude Code AnthropicSupported
- Codex CLI OpenAISupported
- Windsurf CodeiumSupported
Plausible compatibility 13
Derived, not stored: the product passes SSH access, so any CLI coding agent is installable inside it. This is plausible compatibility, not a supported integration.
AiderAmp
Antigravity
Devin
Droid
- Gemini CLI
Goose
Hermes AgentKilo Code
Kiro CLI
- OpenCode
Pi
Qwen Code
07 Compliance & regions Standards held, with ordinal rigor; never a score
Certifications held 3
- SOC 2 Type IIcertifiedhosted
- HIPAAenterprise-onlyhosted
- GDPRself-attestedhosted
Regions 2
- United States (default)
- Provider/region offered by reserved pools
No complete guaranteed regional inventory published. Landing advertises 30+ regions; actual offers vary.
08 Open source AGPL-3.0 · fetched by machine, not quoted from marketing
Licence & repository
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0OSI
- Primary language
- Go
- Stars
- 1,815
- Forks
- 170
- Created
- 15 Nov 2023
- Archived
- No
Activity
- Last commit
- 14 Oct 2026
- Latest release
- gateway-0.1.817 / worker-0.1.799 · 14 Oct 2026
- Issues open / closed
- 10 / 31 · 76% closed
Eight gateway/worker releases observed across October 11–14; separate component version trains.
Fetched via gh on 14 Oct 2026.
Self-hosting
- Methods
- helmkubernetessource-build
- You operate
- postgresredisobject-storage
Free under AGPL-3.0 plus your own infrastructure. EKS installation requires workers, registry, ingress/TLS, PostgreSQL, Redis and S3-compatible storage. Local development uses k3d, Docker, Git, Make and Go. Beam Cloud adds managed workspace, dashboard, billing and hosted services; self-hosting does not provide every Cloud feature.
Documentation signals 8/8
- SupportedQuickstart
- SupportedAPI reference
- SupportedSelf-host guide
- SupportedChangelog
- SupportedOpenAPI
- Supportedllms.txt
- SupportedExamples
- SupportedArchitecture doc
09 Company & presence Facts only, not scored
Company
- Headquarters
- 1 Broadway, 14th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02142, United States
- Founded
- —
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Hiring
- No current careers page located; old /careers returns HTTP 404.
Activity
- Last release
- gateway-0.1.817 / worker-0.1.799, October 14 2026 github.com
- Last blog post
- Blog index lists September 29 GPU pricing articles; year not shown in visible listing. beam.cloud
Presence 3
Links found on the public surface scanned; not an exhaustive search.
10 Sources & method How this entry was produced
Public surface only
Everything here was read from beam.cloud's unauthenticated pages, docs, pricing and repository on 14 Oct 2026. Nothing behind a login was used.
Statuses, not scores
Capabilities are pass, partial or fail against a written rubric (features v21). “Not assessed” means the scan predates the key.
Confidence is separate
Each fact carries its own confidence. Low-confidence facts are shown, never hidden, so you can weigh them.
- Schema
- scan v5
- Features registry
- v21
- Keys tracked today
- 61
- Assessed on this entry
- 61