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On demand in North America, HGX H100 (8 GPUs) $49.24, HGX H200 $50.44, HGX B200 $68.80, A100 $21.60, L40S $18.00, L40 $10.00, GB200 NVL72 (4 GPUs) $42.00 and GH200 (1 GPU) $6.50, with spot rates on most. GB300 NVL72 and HGX B300 on demand are quoted by sales. Reserved capacity is discounted by up to 60 per cent through sales. AI Object Storage is $0.06 a GB-month hot, $0.03 warm and $0.015 cold, distributed file storage $0.07, and egress, VPC and the CKS control plane are free. 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An organisation must be approved by CoreWeave's sales team before any token exists, and no request rate limits were found in the reviewed documentation." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-coreweave", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-coreweave.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-coreweave.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-coreweave.min.md" }, "markdown": "CoreWeave scores 61.5 (C) on agent readiness against Beam's 55.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Beam leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do compute gpu.\n\n- Beam: grade C, 55.5/100, rank #507 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/beam.json\n- CoreWeave: grade C, 61.5/100, rank #363 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coreweave.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/coreweave.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Beam (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 55 against 50\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 80\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No published request rate limits, 429 handling or SLA\n\n### CoreWeave (C)\n\nGood for: Teams that already run Kubernetes and need whole multi-GPU nodes or clusters for training and dedicated inference, with a contract and IAM.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 79 against 58\n- Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 50\n\nWatch for: No self-serve route. CoreWeave's sales team approves an organisation and emails the activation link before a token can be created\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Beam | CoreWeave | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 50 | Beam +5 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 79 | CoreWeave +21 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 58 | even |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 50 | 74 | CoreWeave +24 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 20 | Beam +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 80 | Beam +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 77 | CoreWeave +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.5 · C** | **61.5 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Beam | CoreWeave |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Beam | CoreWeave, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1` | `https://api.coreweave.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | Token |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary service under CoreWeave's Terms of Service. The Terraform provider on GitHub is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 38 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-02 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-14 | 2022-06-30 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | 2026-02-24 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 1.8k stars, 8.5k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Beam.** Per-millisecond billing with cold starts and image pulls free, H100 PCIe at $3.50 and RTX 4090 at $0.69 an hour. No published request rate limits, 429 handling or SLA.\n\n**CoreWeave.** Per-hour prices for 8-GPU H100, H200 and B200 nodes are public, the docs ship as Markdown with llms.txt and embedded OpenAPI specs, and IAM has read-only roles per service. An organisation must be approved by CoreWeave's sales team before any token exists, and no request rate limits were found in the reviewed documentation.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Beam\n\n1. Check the response body for `ok: false` on gateway calls; a failure can arrive as HTTP 200\n2. Don't pipe `beam deploy --format json` output into CI logs, since it contains the workspace token\n3. Route anything over 180 seconds to a task queue and poll the task instead of holding the endpoint request\n4. Set `keep_warm_seconds` deliberately; the 180-second endpoint default bills three minutes of GPU after every call\n5. Pass `gpu=[\"RTX4090\", \"A10G\"]` so a job still schedules when one type is out\n\n### CoreWeave\n\n1. Create an API access token at console.coreweave.com/tokens with an expiry and send it as `Authorization: Bearer` to https://api.coreweave.com\n2. Add GPUs by applying a NodePool resource (`compute.coreweave.com/v1alpha1`) to a CKS cluster with `instanceType` and `targetNodes`. `instanceType` can't be changed afterwards\n3. Set `targetNodes` to 0 or delete the Node Pool when a job ends. Nodes are whole 8-GPU machines billed by the hour\n4. Never pass `dry_run` to the MCP tool `coreweave_kubectl_apply` expecting a preview. The reference says the parameter is ignored and the manifest is applied\n5. Use a separate Forge API key and https://api.inference.wandb.ai/v1 for Serverless Inference. A CoreWeave API access token doesn't work there\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Beam or CoreWeave?\n\nCoreWeave scores 61.5 (C) on agent readiness against Beam's 55.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Beam leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Can an agent call Beam and CoreWeave without installing anything?\n\nYes. Beam has a hosted endpoint at https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1 and CoreWeave at https://api.coreweave.com.\n\n### Are Beam and CoreWeave open source?\n\nBeam is open source (AGPL-3.0). No open-source release is listed for CoreWeave.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-coreweave.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-coreweave.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"beam\", \"b\": \"coreweave\"}`. 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