Beam vs Modal

Only charged when your code runs, no charges for cold starts or server spin-up

Ultrafast boot times with advanced container optimization

Run untrusted code safely in isolated environments for AI agents and code interpreters

Pause and resume sessions while maintaining filesystem, memory, and running processes

Scale to zero when idle, burst to thousands of containers in seconds

Bring your own Docker images for full environment control

Run Python functions on NVIDIA GPUs without provisioning instances; cold starts in seconds

Pay for actual GPU runtime at sub-minute granularity, with scale-to-zero by default

Define environments in code, with automatic image building and caching

From T4 and L4 through A100, L40S, H100, H200 and B200