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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lambda.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lambda.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Beam for reliability (+5), payments \u0026 pricing (+20), maintenance \u0026 community (+80), transparency \u0026 trust (+15).\n\nPick Lambda Cloud for schema \u0026 documentation (+11), agent ergonomics (+5), security \u0026 auth (+10).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Beam | Lambda Cloud | 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 | 69 | Lambda Cloud +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 63 | Lambda Cloud +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 50 | 60 | Lambda Cloud +10 |\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 | 5 | Beam +80 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 59 | Beam +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.5 · C** | **50.1 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Beam | Lambda Cloud |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Beam | Lambda |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1` | `https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | none |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | none |\n| Popularity | 1.8k stars, 8.5k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\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**Lambda Cloud.** H100 SXM at $3.99 and B200 at $6.69 an hour with per-minute billing. No scale to zero, autoscaling or endpoints; an idle VM bills until terminated.\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### Lambda Cloud\n\n1. Call `GET /instance-types` first and read `regions_with_capacity_available` before trying to launch\n2. Space launch calls 12 seconds apart; a sixth in a minute returns 429 with `global/rate-limited`\n3. Branch on the error `code`, not the `message` or `suggestion`, which Lambda says may change\n4. List instances before retrying a failed launch, since there's no idempotency key and a retry can start a second machine\n5. Terminate the instance in a `finally` block; billing runs by the minute until you do\n\n## Other comparisons with Beam or Lambda Cloud\n\n- [Baseten vs Beam](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-beam.md)\n- [Baseten vs Lambda Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-lambda.md)\n- [Beam vs Koyeb](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-koyeb.md)\n- [Beam vs Modal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-modal.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- [Koyeb vs Lambda Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koyeb-vs-lambda.md)\n- [Lambda Cloud vs Modal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-modal.md)\n- [Lambda Cloud vs Northflank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-northflank.md)\n- [Lambda Cloud vs Replicate Deployments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-replicate-deploy.md)\n- [Lambda Cloud vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-runpod.md)\n",
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