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      "pricingNotes": "Developer plan is free plus usage, Team $89 a month plus usage, Growth on request. Billed by the millisecond only while a container runs, which includes `on_start` and `keep_warm_seconds`; cold starts and image pulls aren't billed. Serverless GPUs are RTX 4090 24 GB $0.000192 a second ($0.69 an hour), RTX 5090 32 GB $0.000303 ($1.09), H100 PCIe 80 GB $0.000972 ($3.50). Reserved on-demand machines from $0.44 an hour (RTX 4090), $1.36 (A100 80 GB), $1.83 (H100 PCIe), $2.09 (H200), $4.11 (B200), billed until released even when idle. CPU $0.0000125 a core-second and RAM $0.0000021 a GiB-second on CPU-only work, $0.000105 and $0.0000055 when attached to a GPU, $0.0000375 and $0.0000064 in sandboxes. Storage 1 TB included, then $0.021 a GB-month (https://www.beam.cloud/pricing, https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/resources/pricing-and-billing).",
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          "-2: `beam deploy --format json` writes the full workspace bearer token into the JSON logs array that CI systems keep. Filed by a Beam engineer on 2026-08-04 and still open on 2026-10-01 (https://github.com/beam-cloud/beta9/issues/1828)"
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        "bestFor": "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.",
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          "Free Developer plan with no card required",
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          "Workspace REST API and an official MCP server, local or remote, on the same token",
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          "Tokens have no documented scopes or read-only mode",
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          "Status page silent since June 2025 despite sign-up failures reported on GitHub in August 2026"
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          "Check the response body for `ok: false` on gateway calls; a failure can arrive as HTTP 200",
          "Don't pipe `beam deploy --format json` output into CI logs, since it contains the workspace token",
          "Route anything over 180 seconds to a task queue and poll the task instead of holding the endpoint request",
          "Set `keep_warm_seconds` deliberately; the 180-second endpoint default bills three minutes of GPU after every call",
          "Pass `gpu=[\"RTX4090\", \"A10G\"]` so a job still schedules when one type is out"
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/compute.gpu",
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          "item": "RTX 5090 32 GB serverless",
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          "item": "RTX 4090 24 GB serverless",
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          "note": "From price, billed while reserved"
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          "item": "A100 80 GB reserved machine",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
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          "item": "Team plan",
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        "legalEntity": "Smartshare, Inc.",
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          "Deployed endpoints run on app.beam.cloud, a subdomain of the vendor domain. There's no public REST base URL for deploying.",
          "www.beam.cloud/.well-known/security.txt and www.beam.cloud/terms return 404; the legal pages live under docs.beam.cloud.",
          "No public changelog found; releases show up as commits in the beam-client and beta9 repositories."
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      "summary": "Crusoe Cloud rents NVIDIA and AMD GPU virtual machines with managed Kubernetes and Slurm, and runs hosted model inference, dedicated deployments and LoRA fine-tuning. Resources are managed through a REST API, a CLI, a Terraform provider and a Go client.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud",
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      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crusoe-cloud.json",
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      "pricingNotes": "Pay as you go, billed per second for on-demand VMs. Per GPU-hour, H200 $4.29, H100 $3.90, MI300X $3.45, A100 $2.00 to $2.30 and L40S $1.50. GB200, B200, MI355X and all spot prices are contact sales. Compute needs a non-prepaid credit card. $5 of introductory credits cover Serverless Inference and Fine-Tuning without a card. Ingress and egress are free (https://www.crusoe.ai/cloud/pricing).",
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        "bestFor": "Teams that want whole GPU machines or clusters with managed Kubernetes or Slurm in the US, Iceland or Norway, under an SLA, and are content to manage lifecycles themselves.",
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          "The API description is published for `/v1` and `/v1alpha5`, with 1,231 examples, and the docs serve `llms.txt` and a Markdown twin of each page.",
          "On-demand prices are public and billed per second. H100 is $3.90 and H200 $4.29 a GPU-hour, with no charge for ingress or egress.",
          "Organisation and project roles include read-only `org-reader` and `project-reader`, and the audit log keeps 90 days of control-plane actions readable through the API.",
          "The Terms of Service promise 90 days' notice before a service is discontinued or a customer-facing API changes in a backwards-incompatible way."
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          "No idempotency key or safe-retry guidance was found for create and delete calls, which return asynchronous operations to poll.",
          "No request rate limits were found for the infrastructure API. Numbers are published only for Serverless Inference.",
          "Spot prices and on-demand prices for GB200, B200 and MI355X are listed as contact sales, and provisioning compute needs a non-prepaid credit card.",
          "The status page shows a critical storage incident in eu-norway1 on 29 September 2026 (about 3 hours 54 minutes) and a 7.5-hour VM and cluster creation fault in us-east2 on 2 September.",
          "The Service Specific Terms let customers publish benchmark results only with Crusoe's written consent, and the Intelligence Foundry terms bar competitive analysis or benchmarking. Recorded as a fact, and it matters before any probe is run."
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          "Sign every request. Build the payload from path, sorted query string, verb and `X-Crusoe-Timestamp`, HMAC-SHA256 it with the base64url-decoded secret, and send `Authorization: Bearer 1.0:\u003caccess_key_id\u003e:\u003csignature\u003e`.",
          "Use `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1`. Some docs pages and the MCP server still name `api.crusoecloud.com` and `/v1alpha5`.",
          "Creates, updates and deletes return an operation. Poll the matching operations endpoint for `state`, and list existing resources by name before retrying a create, because no idempotency key was found.",
          "Managed AI uses separate Intelligence API keys and hosts, `api.inference.crusoecloud.com` for OpenAI-compatible calls and `api.intelligence.crusoecloud.com` for files and fine-tuning jobs.",
          "Delete a VM and its disks to stop charges. A stopped on-demand VM is not billed for compute, but its 128 GB OS disk still bills at $0.08 a GiB-month."
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              "tasks"
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          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 66,
          "schema": 79,
          "security": 74,
          "transparency": 64
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        "provenanceScore": 90
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      "connect": {
        "install": "brew install crusoecloud/cli/crusoe",
        "http": "curl https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1/capacities -H \"X-Crusoe-Timestamp: \u003cRFC3339 timestamp\u003e\" -H \"Authorization: Bearer \u003cversion:access_key_id:base64_encoded_signature\u003e\"",
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          "item": "NVIDIA A100 80 GB SXM, on demand",
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          "item": "Persistent disk",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crusoe-cloud.json\n- Best GPU and serverless compute for AI workloads: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/gpu-compute/index.md\n- All 167 gpu compute comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpu-compute/index.md\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- Agent ergonomics, 58 against 45\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 76\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No published request rate limits, 429 handling or SLA\n\n### Crusoe Cloud (B)\n\nGood for: Teams that want whole GPU machines or clusters with managed Kubernetes or Slurm in the US, Iceland or Norway, under an SLA, and are content to manage lifecycles themselves.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 66 against 55\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 79 against 58\n- Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No idempotency key or safe-retry guidance was found for create and delete calls, which return asynchronous operations to poll.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Beam | Crusoe Cloud | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 66 | Crusoe Cloud +11 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 79 | Crusoe Cloud +21 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 45 | Beam +13 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 50 | 74 | Crusoe Cloud +24 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Beam +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 76 | Beam +9 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 77 | Crusoe Cloud +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.5 · C** | **63.4 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Beam | Crusoe Cloud |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Beam | Crusoe |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1` | `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary service under the Crusoe Cloud Platform Terms of Service. The Go client and the MCP server package are MIT. The CLI ships as binaries, and no licence file was found in the Terraform provider repository |\n| Tools exposed | none | 41 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-08 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-14 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 1.8k stars, 8.5k PyPI/wk | 7 npm/wk |\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**Crusoe Cloud.** The v1 REST API has a published OpenAPI description, Markdown docs, HMAC-signed keys, reader roles and a 90-day audit log, with on-demand GPU prices public. No idempotency keys or control-plane rate limits were found, spot and B200 prices go through sales, and a storage outage in eu-norway1 lasted about four hours on 29 September 2026.\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### Crusoe Cloud\n\n1. Sign every request. Build the payload from path, sorted query string, verb and `X-Crusoe-Timestamp`, HMAC-SHA256 it with the base64url-decoded secret, and send `Authorization: Bearer 1.0:\u003caccess_key_id\u003e:\u003csignature\u003e`.\n2. Use `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1`. Some docs pages and the MCP server still name `api.crusoecloud.com` and `/v1alpha5`.\n3. Creates, updates and deletes return an operation. Poll the matching operations endpoint for `state`, and list existing resources by name before retrying a create, because no idempotency key was found.\n4. Managed AI uses separate Intelligence API keys and hosts, `api.inference.crusoecloud.com` for OpenAI-compatible calls and `api.intelligence.crusoecloud.com` for files and fine-tuning jobs.\n5. Delete a VM and its disks to stop charges. A stopped on-demand VM is not billed for compute, but its 128 GB OS disk still bills at $0.08 a GiB-month.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Beam or Crusoe Cloud?\n\nCrusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Beam's 55.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Beam leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Can an agent call Beam and Crusoe Cloud without installing anything?\n\nYes. Beam has a hosted endpoint at https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1 and Crusoe Cloud at https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1.\n\n### Are Beam and Crusoe Cloud open source?\n\nBeam is open source (AGPL-3.0). No open-source release is listed for Crusoe Cloud.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-crusoe-cloud.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-crusoe-cloud.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"beam\", \"b\": \"crusoe-cloud\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare beam crusoe-cloud`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/beam.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crusoe-cloud.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Beam or Crusoe Cloud\n\n- [Baseten vs Beam](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-beam.md)\n- [Baseten vs Crusoe Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-crusoe-cloud.md)\n- [Beam vs Cerebrium](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-cerebrium.md)\n- [Beam vs CoreWeave](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-coreweave.md)\n- [Beam vs Hugging Face Inference Endpoints](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-hugging-face-inference-endpoints.md)\n- [Beam vs Hyperbolic](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-hyperbolic.md)\n- [Beam vs Koyeb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-koyeb.md)\n- [Beam vs Lambda Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-lambda.md)\n- [Beam vs Massed Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-massed-compute.md)\n- [Beam vs Modal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-modal.md)\n- [Beam vs Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.md)\n- [Beam vs Northflank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-northflank.md)\n- [Beam vs Replicate Deployments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-replicate-deploy.md)\n- [Beam vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Beam vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Beam vs Vast.ai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-vast-ai.md)\n- [Beam vs Verda](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-verda.md)\n- [Cerebrium vs Crusoe Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebrium-vs-crusoe-cloud.md)\n- [CoreWeave vs Crusoe Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-crusoe-cloud.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Hugging Face Inference Endpoints](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-hugging-face-inference-endpoints.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Hyperbolic](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-hyperbolic.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Koyeb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-koyeb.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Lambda Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-lambda.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Massed Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-massed-compute.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Modal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-modal.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Northflank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-northflank.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Replicate Deployments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-replicate-deploy.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Vast.ai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-vast-ai.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Verda](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-verda.md)\n",
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