# Beam vs Cerebrium (slim)

> Beam and Cerebrium score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 55.5 (C) and 55.3 (C). Cerebrium leads on schema & documentation and security & auth. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Beam and Cerebrium score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 55.5 (C) and 55.3 (C). Cerebrium leads on schema & documentation and security & auth. Both do compute gpu.

- Beam: C 55.5, rank #507 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.min.md
- Cerebrium: C 55.3, rank #512 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cerebrium.min.md
- Beam, good for Cost-sensitive Python teams running bursty GPU functions on consumer or PCIe cards, and anyone who wants the option to self-host the same runtime. Ahead on Reliability, 55 against 48; Agent ergonomics, 58 against 49; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 85 against 75; Transparency & trust, 74 against 63. Also Open source.
- Cerebrium, good for Teams serving their own models as real-time endpoints (voice, LLM, image) who want per-second billing, multi-region placement and a scriptable management API. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 70 against 58; Security & auth, 60 against 50.

| Category | Beam | Cerebrium |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 48 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 58 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 58 | 49 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Beam | Cerebrium |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Beam | Cerebrium Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1` | `https://rest.cerebrium.ai` |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary service under Cerebrium's terms of service. The CLI is MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-14 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1.8k stars, 8.5k PyPI/wk | 920 PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |