# Beam vs Koyeb

> Beam has a score of 55.5 (C) against Koyeb's 47 (D). Both do compute gpu. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 62 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Beam has a score of 55.5 (C) against Koyeb's 47 (D). Both do compute gpu. The largest gap is maintenance & community, 62 points.

- Beam: grade C, 55.5/100, rank #313 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/beam.json
- Koyeb: grade D, 47/100, rank #389 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koyeb.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/koyeb.json

## Which one, for what

Pick Beam for schema & documentation (+17), payments & pricing (+20), maintenance & community (+62), transparency & trust (+6).

Pick Koyeb for reliability (+5).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Beam | Koyeb | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 60 | Koyeb +5 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 41 | Beam +17 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 56 | Beam +2 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 50 | 50 | even |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 20 | Beam +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 23 | Beam +62 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 68 | Beam +6 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **55.5 · C** | **47 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Beam | Koyeb |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | Model platform |
| Vendor | Beam | Koyeb |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1` | `https://app.koyeb.com/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | Token |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | none |
| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |
| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-05-12 |
| Popularity | 1.8k stars, 8.5k PyPI/wk | 72 stars |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3.5/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Koyeb.** H100 at $2.50 and H200 at $3.00 an hour, billed per second. Changelog silent since 27 February 2026 and no CLI release since 12 May 2026.

## Before you call either

### Beam

1. Check the response body for `ok: false` on gateway calls; a failure can arrive as HTTP 200
2. Don't pipe `beam deploy --format json` output into CI logs, since it contains the workspace token
3. Route anything over 180 seconds to a task queue and poll the task instead of holding the endpoint request
4. Set `keep_warm_seconds` deliberately; the 180-second endpoint default bills three minutes of GPU after every call
5. Pass `gpu=["RTX4090", "A10G"]` so a job still schedules when one type is out

### Koyeb

1. Pass `dry_run` on service create or update to validate the definition before anything deploys
2. Page service lists with `limit` and `offset` and filter by `statuses` instead of fetching everything
3. Expect the first request after deep sleep to take 1 to 5 seconds and retry once with a timeout
4. Set `--min-scale 0` on GPU services so idle instances stop billing
5. Re-check the Mistral transition before building anything long-lived on it

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