What is the difference between Beam and Sesterce?

Beam and Sesterce are both cloud GPU providers offering different pricing models, features, and GPU availability. Use our comparison tool to see real-time pricing and feature differences.

Which is cheaper: Beam or Sesterce?

Pricing varies by GPU model and usage requirements. Check our real-time comparison table to find the best deals for your specific needs.

Can I switch between Beam and Sesterce?

Yes, both providers offer flexible cloud GPU services. However, consider factors like data transfer costs, setup time, and specific features when switching between providers.

How many GPU models are available for comparison?

We track pricing for 17 different GPU models across both Beam and Sesterce, with 0 models available from both providers.

Beam vs Sesterce

Compare GPU pricing between Beam and Sesterce. Find the best rates for AI training, inference, and ML workloads.

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

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Sesterce GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $0.84/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 17Both available: 2Beam: 3Sesterce: 16

Showing 15 of 17 GPUs

Last updated: 10/5/2026, 9:59:05 PM

GPU Model ↑	Beam Price	Sesterce Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.42/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A10 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.42/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.20/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.20/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.54/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.54/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.19/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.19/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.05/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.05/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • BeamSesterce	$3.50/hr	$2.19/hr★ Best 8x GPU	↑+$1.31(+59.9%)	Beam Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Beam $3.50/hour Updated: 10/1/2026 Sesterce $2.19/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/4/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$1.31(+59.9%) Beam Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.04/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.04/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.09/hr★ Best 2x GPU	—	Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.09/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Beam	$0.69/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Beam
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Beam $0.69/hour Updated: 10/1/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Beam
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • BeamSesterce	$1.09/hr	$0.71/hr★ Best	↑+$0.38(+52.6%)	Beam Sesterce API
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • Beam $1.09/hour Updated: 10/1/2026 Sesterce $0.71/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.38(+52.6%) Beam Sesterce API
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.07/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.07/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX A4000 16GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.88/hr★ Best 2x GPU	—	Sesterce API
RTX A4000 16GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.88/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX A5000 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.56/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX A5000 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.56/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX A6000 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.55/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX A6000 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.55/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API

A10 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.42/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A10 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.42/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.20/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.20/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.54/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.54/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.19/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.19/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.05/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.05/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • BeamSesterce	$3.50/hr	$2.19/hr★ Best 8x GPU	↑+$1.31(+59.9%)	Beam Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Beam $3.50/hour Updated: 10/1/2026 Sesterce $2.19/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/4/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$1.31(+59.9%) Beam Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.04/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.04/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.09/hr★ Best 2x GPU	—	Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.09/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Beam	$0.69/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Beam
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Beam $0.69/hour Updated: 10/1/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Beam
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • BeamSesterce	$1.09/hr	$0.71/hr★ Best	↑+$0.38(+52.6%)	Beam Sesterce API
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • Beam $1.09/hour Updated: 10/1/2026 Sesterce $0.71/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.38(+52.6%) Beam Sesterce API
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.07/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.07/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX A4000 16GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.88/hr★ Best 2x GPU	—	Sesterce API
RTX A4000 16GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.88/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX A5000 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.56/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX A5000 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.56/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX A6000 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.55/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX A6000 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.55/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API

Features Comparison

Beam

Pay-per-millisecond Billing
Only charged when your code runs, no charges for cold starts or server spin-up
Sub-second Cold Starts
Memory snapshots and GPU checkpoint restore bring containers back in seconds, which Beam reports as up to 35x faster than a traditional cold boot
Secure Sandbox Environments
Run untrusted code safely in isolated environments for AI agents and code interpreters
Stateful, Persistent Runtimes
Pause and resume sessions while maintaining filesystem, memory, and running processes
Elastic GPU Scaling
Scale to zero when idle, burst to thousands of containers in seconds
Custom Docker Images
Bring your own Docker images for full environment control, including running the Docker daemon inside containers

Sesterce

Vertically Integrated AI Factories
Each site is operated as a single system, owning the hand-off between energy, facility, silicon, network fabric, and orchestration
Sovereign European Infrastructure
French sites offering data residency, controlled energy origin, and supply-chain control, drawing on 2 GW of hydro, nuclear, and solar capacity secured under long-term PPAs
SoftBank Joint Venture at Bosquel
A joint venture with SoftBank Group to develop a 1 GW AI data center campus at Bosquel in Hauts-de-France
Sesterce OS Control Plane
Single console and API to provision clusters, orchestrate training, serve inference, and meter usage across every Sesterce site, Slurm and Kubernetes native
High-Density Liquid Cooling
Purpose-built Tier III+ facilities with direct-to-chip liquid cooling at up to 150 kW per rack, rated at PUE 1.12 under full AI load
InfiniBand Fabric
Non-blocking NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand at 800 Gb/s with rail-optimized topology and native RDMA

Pros & Cons

Beam

Advantages

Pay-per-millisecond billing with no charges for cold starts
Ultrafast boot times with sub-second cold starts via memory snapshots
GPU selection spanning RTX 4090 through B200, plus InfiniBand cluster nodes
On-demand machines priced flat per machine, including vCPU, RAM, and NVMe storage

Considerations

Serverless GPUs other than the RTX 4090 require a committed-spend agreement
GPU container concurrency is capped on the lower plan tiers
Multi-node InfiniBand clusters are sales-only with no published pricing

Sesterce

Advantages

Broad on-demand catalog running from Blackwell B300 and H200 down to previous-generation NVIDIA cards, plus Intel Gaudi 2
On-demand, spot, and reserved billing modes on the same clusters
VM and bare-metal deployment with single- and multi-GPU (up to 8x) configurations
European data residency across French sites, with hydro, nuclear, and solar energy under long-term PPAs

Considerations

Infrastructure concentrated in France, with no North American or Asia-Pacific regions
Rack-scale GB300 NVL72 and B200 capacity is contracted as reserved AI factory capacity rather than sold from the self-serve catalog
The newest and largest accelerators (B300, H200, Gaudi 2) are only sold as 8-GPU nodes, with no smaller self-serve size

Compute Services

Beam

Inference Endpoints

Deploy high-performance inference endpoints with custom models

Custom model hosting on GPU or CPU
Pre-loading models for fast response times

Sandboxes

Secure code execution environments for AI agents

Run untrusted LLM-generated code safely
Snapshot and restore complete system state

Task Queues

Run large-scale workloads with distributed processing

Audio processing pipelines
Data processing at scale

Sesterce

Compute

On-demand VMs and bare-metal servers launched with no commitment

Clusters

Dedicated multi-node GPU clusters ranging from around 100 to 15,000 GPUs

AI Inference

Managed inference instances for serving models alongside GPU compute

Pricing Options

Beam

Pay-per-millisecond

Serverless GPU, CPU, and sandbox usage billed by the millisecond with no minimum charges

Committed Spend

Serverless access to GPUs beyond the RTX 4090 is arranged through a committed-spend agreement

On-Demand Machines

Flat hourly price per machine that already includes the vCPU, RAM, and NVMe storage

Reserved Clusters

Multi-node InfiniBand clusters reserved monthly or yearly, quoted through sales

Bring Your Own Cloud

Per-vCPU and per-GB management fee on top of compute billed directly by your own cloud provider

Storage

Persistent volumes and snapshots included up to a capacity threshold, then billed per GB per month

Monthly Plans

Developer plan free with usage, Team plan with a monthly base fee plus usage, and a contact-sales Growth tier

Free Monthly Credits

All plans include monthly free credits that refresh each month

Volume Discounts

Discounts available for high monthly usage, arranged through sales

Sesterce

On-Demand

Pay-per-second usage with no commitment on VMs and bare-metal servers

Spot

Discounted interruptible capacity, filterable as a spot offer in the compute catalog

Reserved Capacity

Committed multi-megawatt cluster capacity contracted for frontier-scale workloads

Credit-based Billing

Pre-funded account balance system for streamlined resource management

Getting Started

Beam

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up on the Beam platform to receive monthly free credits
2
Set up Python environment
Create a virtual environment and install the Beam SDK
3
Authenticate with API token
Configure your API token to connect to Beam
4
Deploy your first app
Run a function locally, then deploy it as a web endpoint with the Beam CLI

Sesterce

Get Started

1
Create Account
Sign up for Sesterce Cloud platform access
2
Add Credits
Fund your account with credits for pay-as-you-go billing
3
Launch Instance
Choose your GPU type and configuration, launch in just a few clicks or via the CLI and API

Support & Global Availability

Beam

Global Regions

30+ regions spanning the US, EU, Asia-Pacific, and Canada, with workloads routed across clouds and regions in real time

Support

Documentation, public Slack community, and a status page; live chat support on paid plans and a private Slack channel on the top tier

Sesterce

Global Regions

French footprint: AI factory sites at Bosquel (Hauts-de-France) and Valence, plus a Paris cloud region hosted at Equinix; several on-demand GPU types are offered in more than one region

Support

Documentation and API reference, self-service console with help and requests, REST API and CLI, contact sales for reserved capacity