# Beam vs Crusoe Cloud (slim)

> Crusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) to Beam's 55.5 (C) for gpu compute. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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

- Beam: C 55.5, rank #654 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.min.md
- Crusoe Cloud: B 63.4, rank #396 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.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 Agent ergonomics, 58 against 45; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 85 against 76. Also Open source.
- Crusoe Cloud, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 66 against 55; Schema & documentation, 79 against 58; Security & auth, 74 against 50. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Beam | Crusoe Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 66 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 58 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 58 | 45 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 74 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Beam | Crusoe Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Beam | Crusoe |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1` | `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | none | 41 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-14 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 1.8k stars, 8.5k PyPI/wk | 7 npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |