# Beam vs CoreWeave (slim)

> 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 & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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 & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do compute gpu.

- Beam: C 55.5, rank #507 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.min.md
- CoreWeave: C 61.5, rank #363 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/coreweave.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 50; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 85 against 80. Also Open source.
- CoreWeave, good for Teams that already run Kubernetes and need whole multi-GPU nodes or clusters for training and dedicated inference, with a contract and IAM. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 79 against 58; Security & auth, 74 against 50.

| Category | Beam | CoreWeave |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 58 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 58 | 58 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 74 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Beam | CoreWeave |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Beam | CoreWeave, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1` | `https://api.coreweave.com` |
| Auth | API key | Token |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary service under CoreWeave's Terms of Service. The Terraform provider on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 38 |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-14 | 2022-06-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | 2026-02-24 |
| 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 | none |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |