What is the difference between Beam and Shadeform?

Beam and Shadeform 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 Shadeform?

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 Shadeform?

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 23 different GPU models across both Beam and Shadeform, with 0 models available from both providers.

Beam vs Shadeform

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

Beam

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Shadeform

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Beam GPUs

Shadeform GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $1.00/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 23Both available: 1Beam: 3Shadeform: 21

Showing 15 of 23 GPUs

Last updated: 10/26/2026, 1:51:32 PM

GPU Model ↑	Beam Price	Shadeform Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.29/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A10 24GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.29/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.35/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.35/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.35/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.35/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.36/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.36/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.86/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.86/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
B200 180GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$6.52/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $6.52/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.10/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.10/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$2.29/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $2.29/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • BeamShadeform	$3.50/hr	$2.50/hr★ Best	↑+$1.00(+40.0%)	Beam Shadeform API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Beam $3.50/hour Updated: 10/24/2026 Shadeform $2.50/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$1.00(+40.0%) Beam Shadeform API
H200 141GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$4.00/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $4.00/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$11.00/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $11.00/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
L4 24GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$0.95/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $0.95/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
L40 40GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$0.88/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $0.88/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$0.88/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $0.88/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
RTX 4000 Ada 20GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$0.79/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
RTX 4000 Ada 20GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $0.79/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API

A10 24GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.29/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A10 24GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.29/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.35/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.35/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.35/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.35/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.36/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.36/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.86/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.86/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
B200 180GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$6.52/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $6.52/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$1.10/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $1.10/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$2.29/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $2.29/hour Updated: 10/25/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • BeamShadeform	$3.50/hr	$2.50/hr★ Best	↑+$1.00(+40.0%)	Beam Shadeform API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Beam $3.50/hour Updated: 10/24/2026 Shadeform $2.50/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$1.00(+40.0%) Beam Shadeform API
H200 141GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$4.00/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $4.00/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$11.00/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Shadeform API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $11.00/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
L4 24GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$0.95/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $0.95/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
L40 40GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$0.88/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $0.88/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$0.88/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $0.88/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
RTX 4000 Ada 20GB VRAM • Shadeform	Not Available	$0.79/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
RTX 4000 Ada 20GB VRAM • Not Available Shadeform $0.79/hour Updated: 10/26/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform 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

Shadeform

Multi-cloud GPU marketplace
Deploy high quality GPUs across 30+ top clouds worldwide through one platform
Global scale
Scale across 100+ regions in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia
Unified API and billing
Provision GPU instances across top providers with centralized billing and support
Cost optimization
Users save up to 90% on GPU instances vs traditional cloud providers
Launch tooling
Startup scripts, container launches, templates, persistent volumes and SkyPilot integration documented for instance provisioning
Public instance directory
Browse and compare instances and clouds by GPU type, GPU count and compliance, with interconnect and deployment type shown per listing, before creating an account

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

Shadeform

Advantages

Compare GPU prices across 30+ cloud providers in one place
Single API to deploy on any supported provider
Unified billing across providers
Easy provider switching without vendor lock-in

Considerations

Additional abstraction layer between you and the provider
Feature support may lag behind individual providers
Dependent on underlying provider availability

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

Shadeform

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

Shadeform

On-demand instances

GPU instances for everything from quick experiments to scaling production workloads

On-demand clusters

Instantly deployable clusters of up to 64 GPUs, no commitment required

Reserved commitments

Reserve capacity at a discounted rate on terms from one week to three years, quoted by request across partner clouds

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

Shadeform

Get Started

1
Create account
Sign up to access the Shadeform platform and marketplace
2
Browse marketplace
Explore available GPU instances across providers and regions
3
Deploy instances
Launch GPU instances using the unified console or 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

Shadeform

Global Regions

GPU clusters deployed across 100+ regions in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia

Support

Documentation with API reference and tutorial library, unified platform console, email support and call scheduling for reservation quotes; managed Kubernetes for reserved clusters available at additional cost