Beam vs CloudGPU
As of , CloudGPU lists the lower on-demand rate on 3 of the 5 GPUs both offer on-demand; Beam wins on 2. On the priciest shared card both list on-demand, NVIDIA A100 80GB: Beam $1.36 vs CloudGPU $1.49 per GPU-hour on-demand — Beam is $0.13 (9%) cheaper.
On-demand, per GPU-hour
| GPU |  Beam |  CloudGPU | Difference | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA A100 80GB median $1.99 · 63 providers · lowest CloudRift $1.05 | $1.36 from captured Deploy ↗ | $1.49 captured Deploy ↗ | $0.13 (9%) | Beam |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell median $2.23 · 41 providers · lowest Hostinger $0.65 from | $1.09 from captured Deploy ↗ | $1.49 captured Deploy ↗ | $0.40 (27%) | Beam |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 median $0.81 · 20 providers · lowest HexGrid $0.55 | $0.72 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.59 captured Deploy ↗ | $0.13 (18%) | CloudGPU |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 median $0.59 · 21 providers · lowest Thunder Compute $0.35 | $0.54 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.44 captured Deploy ↗ | $0.10 (19%) | CloudGPU |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 median $0.47 · 16 providers · lowest CloudGPU $0.33 | $0.44 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.33 captured Deploy ↗ | $0.11 (25%) | CloudGPU |
How this is compared
Cloud GPU rental prices of Beam and CloudGPU, compared per GPU-hour on the GPUs both list. Where a provider has several tiers or regions, its cheapest on-demand rate is used and labelled. Community capacity (RunPod Community Cloud) and marketplace floors are shown only where a provider has nothing else, and never decide which is cheaper.
GPU by GPU
- NVIDIA A100 80GB: Beam $1.36 vs CloudGPU $1.49 per GPU-hour on-demand — Beam is $0.13 (9%) cheaper.
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell: Beam $1.09 vs CloudGPU $1.49 per GPU-hour on-demand — Beam is $0.40 (27%) cheaper.
- NVIDIA RTX 5090: Beam $0.72 vs CloudGPU $0.59 per GPU-hour on-demand — CloudGPU is $0.13 (18%) cheaper.
- NVIDIA RTX A6000: Beam $0.54 vs CloudGPU $0.44 per GPU-hour on-demand — CloudGPU is $0.10 (19%) cheaper.
- NVIDIA RTX 4090: Beam $0.44 vs CloudGPU $0.33 per GPU-hour on-demand — CloudGPU is $0.11 (25%) cheaper.
Not compared: GPUs only one of the two lists, reserved/committed tiers, and anything either provider prices only on request. See each provider's page for its full list.
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