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      "slug": "beam",
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      "vendor": "Beam",
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      "kind": "platform",
      "category": "gpu-compute",
      "summary": "Serverless GPU endpoints, task queues, functions, pods and sandboxes from Python decorators, on the open-source beta9 runtime.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/beam.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/beam-cloud/beta9",
      "license": "AGPL-3.0",
      "transports": [
        "http"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "beam-client"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "API token from platform.beam.cloud, read from `BEAM_TOKEN` by the SDK and CLI or stored by `beam login` in `~/.beam/config.ini`, with named contexts for several workspaces. Deployed endpoints take the same token as `Authorization: Bearer`. The TypeScript SDK sets `beamOpts.token` server-side.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "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).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.045 / vCPU-hr",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 1800,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": 8481,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.beam.cloud",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.beam.cloud/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "compute.gpu",
        "compute.serverless",
        "compute.endpoints",
        "compute.batch",
        "compute.containers"
      ],
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        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "llms-txt",
        "async-jobs"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-01",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 55.5,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 654,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 950,
        "categoryRank": 12,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 58,
          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 55,
          "schema": 58,
          "security": 50,
          "transparency": 74
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
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          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": -2,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "-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)"
        ],
        "verdict": "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.",
        "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.",
        "strengths": [
          "Per-millisecond billing with cold starts and image pulls free, H100 PCIe at $3.50 and RTX 4090 at $0.69 an hour",
          "Free Developer plan with no card required",
          "beta9, the engine the hosted cloud runs on, is AGPL-3.0 and self-hostable",
          "Workspace REST API and an official MCP server, local or remote, on the same token",
          "Privacy policy with retention periods per category and a published subprocessor list"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No published request rate limits, 429 handling or SLA",
          "No public changelog or deprecation notices; releases show up only on PyPI and GitHub",
          "Tokens have no documented scopes or read-only mode",
          "`beam deploy --format json` leaks the workspace token into its logs, open since 4 August 2026",
          "Status page silent since June 2025 despite sign-up failures reported on GitHub in August 2026"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "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"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 55.5
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        ],
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          "ergonomics": 58,
          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 55,
          "schema": 58,
          "security": 50,
          "transparency": 71
        },
        "provenanceScore": 76
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "pip install beam-client \u0026\u0026 beam login",
        "http": "curl -X POST \"https://my-function-$BEAM_DEPLOYMENT_ID-v1.app.beam.cloud\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $BEAM_TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"x\":10}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/compute.gpu",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/beam"
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      "area": "models",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "H100 PCIe 80 GB serverless",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 3.5,
          "note": "$0.000972 a second"
        },
        {
          "item": "RTX 5090 32 GB serverless",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 1.09,
          "note": "$0.000303 a second"
        },
        {
          "item": "RTX 4090 24 GB serverless",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.69,
          "note": "$0.000192 a second"
        },
        {
          "item": "B200 180 GB reserved machine",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 4.11,
          "note": "From price, billed while reserved"
        },
        {
          "item": "H200 141 GB reserved machine",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 2.09,
          "note": "From price, billed while reserved"
        },
        {
          "item": "A100 80 GB reserved machine",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 1.36,
          "note": "From price, billed while reserved"
        },
        {
          "item": "CPU-only compute",
          "unit": "vcpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.045,
          "note": "$0.0000125 a core-second, RAM extra at $0.0000021 a GiB-second"
        },
        {
          "item": "Team plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 89,
          "note": "Plus usage"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Smartshare, Inc.",
        "domain": "beam.cloud",
        "domainRegistered": "2019-07-31",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/security/terms-and-conditions",
        "privacy": "https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/security/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.beam.cloud",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "Terms dated 14 September 2026 name Smartshare, Inc., a Delaware corporation doing business as Beam. The site footer reads © 2026 Smartshare, Inc.",
          "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."
        ],
        "score": 76
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.json",
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          "lastMs": 262,
          "authRequired": false,
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          "p95ms24h": 337,
          "samples24h": 250,
          "samples30d": 1999,
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              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 100,
              "ok": 100
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
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              "ok": 272
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-06",
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              "ok": 272
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-07",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-08",
              "probes": 268,
              "ok": 268
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-09",
              "probes": 250,
              "ok": 250
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-10",
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              "ok": 22
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.beam.cloud",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-10T02:05:40.092761156Z"
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        "versions": [
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            "name": "beam-cloud/beta9",
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            "released": "2026-10-09",
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          {
            "registry": "pypi",
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          "url": "https://beam.cloud/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T15:39:36.87773909Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.beam.cloud/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T14:01:30.815285888Z"
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        "domain": {
          "domain": "beam.cloud",
          "registered": "2019-07-31",
          "source": "https://rdap.registry.cloud/rdap/domain/beam.cloud",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:15.987834596Z"
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          {
            "url": "https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/resources/pricing-and-billing",
            "kind": "pricing",
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            "url": "https://www.beam.cloud/pricing",
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          {
            "url": "https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/security/privacy-policy",
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          {
            "url": "https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/security/terms-and-conditions",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
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    "answer": "Beam scores 55.5 (C) on agent readiness against Massed Compute's 42.3 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Massed Compute leads on schema \u0026 documentation and security \u0026 auth.",
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      "slug": "massed-compute",
      "name": "Massed Compute",
      "vendor": "Massed Compute",
      "vendorUrl": "https://massedcompute.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "gpu-compute",
      "summary": "Massed Compute is a US GPU cloud that rents NVIDIA GPU virtual machines by the hour from hardware it owns, with bare metal and clusters by quote. Agents use its REST API or a hosted MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/massed-compute",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/massed-compute.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/massed-compute.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/massed-compute.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Massed-Compute/massed-compute-mcp",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Massed Compute's Terms \u0026 Conditions and End User Licence Agreement. The `massed-compute-mcp` wrapper on GitHub is MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://vm.massedcompute.com/api/v1",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "massed-compute-mcp"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "massed-compute-mcp"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve. The owner signs up in a browser, verifies an email address and creates a named API token at vm.massedcompute.com/settings/api, choosing Full access or Read only. The token is shown once, travels as a Bearer header and is revoked from the token table. The same token works for the REST API and the MCP server. MCP clients that send no token get a 401 with an OAuth challenge, and the owner signs in and approves full or read-only access. Grants are listed and revoked under Connected Apps. The older marketplace API on `api.massedcompute.com` issues keys only through support.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "No free tier or trial credit was found. The owner adds a card or pays in crypto, makes a first deposit and sets an auto-recharge threshold of at least $5 before any launch. Running VMs are debited every minute at a published hourly rate. On 9 October 2026 a single A30 was $0.35 an hour, an RTX A6000 $0.57, an L40S $0.97, an A100 80 GB $1.35 and an H100 80 GB $2.73. No bandwidth charge per the pricing page. Bare metal, clusters and the marketplace API are by quote (https://vm.massedcompute.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "Pay per use",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the two OpenAPI files, the MCP server card or the pricing page. The billing docs describe crypto top-ups made by the account owner, which is not a machine payment protocol (checked 2026-10-09).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 17,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 1,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-09"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://vm-docs.massedcompute.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://massedcompute.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://vm-docs.massedcompute.com/redocusaurus/plugin-redoc-0.yaml",
      "registryName": "io.github.Massed-Compute/mcp",
      "capabilities": [
        "compute.gpu"
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        "hosted",
        "usage-priced",
        "openapi",
        "mcp",
        "oauth",
        "api-key",
        "read-only-keys",
        "node",
        "python",
        "card-required",
        "crypto-payments",
        "closed-source"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-07-24",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 42.3,
        "grade": "E",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 896,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 950,
        "categoryRank": 18,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 56,
          "maintenance": 51,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 20,
          "schema": 69,
          "security": 61,
          "transparency": 61
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-09"
        },
        "negative": -5,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "8 June 2026. The `instances_list` and `instances_get` MCP tools returned the cleartext VM password although their descriptions said it was redacted. Fixed in `massed-compute-mcp` 1.0.3 and later moved server-side, with rotation advice in the changelog. No GitHub advisory is published. Fixed and documented, so 3 points (https://github.com/Massed-Compute/massed-compute-mcp/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md).",
          "9 October 2026. The product page lists SDKs for Go and a Terraform provider, webhooks and per-project quotas. None appears in the docs, the OpenAPI file or the vendor's public GitHub organisation. 2 points (https://massedcompute.com/products/inventory-api/)."
        ],
        "verdict": "The hosted MCP server and REST API accept OAuth grants or API tokens in read-only and full-access tiers, and all 17 tools carry typed schemas and safety annotations in a public server card. No status page, rate limit figures or API changelog were found, a launch has no idempotency key, and the governing terms could not be read.",
        "bestFor": "Agents that rent whole GPU VMs by the hour for training, fine-tuning or a model server and want a small MCP tool set with a read-only mode.",
        "strengths": [
          "API tokens and OAuth grants come in read-only and full-access tiers, and tokens are revoked one at a time in the console",
          "A public server card lists all 17 MCP tools with JSON Schema inputs and `readOnlyHint`, `destructiveHint` and `idempotentHint` annotations",
          "Hourly prices for 23 GPU configurations, from $0.35 for an A30 to $52.80 for eight B300s, are public without a login",
          "A public OpenAPI 3.0 file covers the 14 REST operations at `https://vm.massedcompute.com/api/v1`",
          "The sub-processor list names 23 processors with locations, was updated on 10 September 2026 and has an RSS feed for changes"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No status page, incident history or security.txt was found on any of the vendor's hosts",
          "A 429 answer exists but no rate limit figures are published, and the OpenAPI file documents no error response",
          "`POST /instance/launch` has no idempotency key, so a retried launch can start a second billed VM",
          "Until a fix dated 8 June 2026, `instances_list` and `instances_get` returned the cleartext VM password although their descriptions said it was redacted",
          "The product page lists Go and Terraform SDKs and webhooks that the docs, the OpenAPI file and the public GitHub organisation do not show",
          "A stopped instance is billed at the full hourly rate. Only termination ends billing, and it deletes the data"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use `https://vm.massedcompute.com/api/v1`. The older docs at api-docs.massedcompute.com describe a separate marketplace API on `api.massedcompute.com` whose keys come from support.",
          "Ask the owner for a read-only token unless the task must launch or terminate. Read-only credentials cannot call launch, restart, terminate or SSH key changes.",
          "Call `gpu_inventory_list` and `images_list` before `instances_launch`. Product names and image IDs are free values, and SXM-only images do not run on PCIe cards.",
          "Expect 402 on launch until the owner has added credit and set a recharge amount and threshold. List instances before retrying a launch.",
          "Terminate to end billing. Stopping keeps the full hourly charge, and termination deletes the instance data."
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "E",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 42.3
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 56,
          "maintenance": 51,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 20,
          "schema": 69,
          "security": 61,
          "transparency": 53
        },
        "provenanceScore": 68
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install -g massed-compute-mcp",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http massed-compute https://vm.massedcompute.com/api/mcp --header \"Authorization: Bearer MC_TOKEN\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "massed-compute": {
              "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer MC_TOKEN"
              },
              "type": "http",
              "url": "https://vm.massedcompute.com/api/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/compute.gpu",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/massed-compute"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "A30 24 GB VM",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.35,
          "note": "Billed per minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "RTX A5000 24 GB VM",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.44,
          "note": "Billed per minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "RTX A6000 48 GB VM",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.57,
          "note": "Billed per minute. An alternative configuration is $0.55"
        },
        {
          "item": "RTX 6000 Ada 48 GB VM",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.79,
          "note": "Billed per minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "L40 48 GB VM",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.86,
          "note": "Billed per minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 32 GB VM",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.92,
          "note": "Billed per minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "L40S 48 GB VM",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.97,
          "note": "Billed per minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "A100 80 GB VM",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 1.35,
          "note": "Billed per minute. SXM4 and DGX variants are $1.38"
        },
        {
          "item": "RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB VM",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 2.19,
          "note": "Billed per minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "H100 80 GB VM",
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  "markdown": "Beam scores 55.5 (C) on agent readiness against Massed Compute's 42.3 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Massed Compute leads on schema \u0026 documentation and security \u0026 auth. Both do gpu compute.\n\n- Beam: grade C, 55.5/100, rank #654 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/beam.json\n- Massed Compute: grade E, 42.3/100, rank #896 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/massed-compute.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/massed-compute.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- Reliability, 55 against 20\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 51\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 74 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No published request rate limits, 429 handling or SLA\n\n### Massed Compute (E)\n\nGood for: Agents that rent whole GPU VMs by the hour for training, fine-tuning or a model server and want a small MCP tool set with a read-only mode.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 69 against 58\n- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 50\n\nWatch for: No status page, incident history or security.txt was found on any of the vendor's hosts\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Beam | Massed Compute | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 55 | 20 | Beam +35 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 69 | Massed Compute +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 58 | 56 | Beam +2 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 50 | 61 | Massed Compute +11 |\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 | 51 | Beam +34 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 61 | Beam +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -5 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.5 · C** | **42.3 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Beam | Massed Compute |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Beam | Massed Compute |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1` | `https://vm.massedcompute.com/api/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| Price for gpu compute | not published | $5.43 per GPU-hour |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary service under Massed Compute's Terms \u0026 Conditions and End User Licence Agreement. The `massed-compute-mcp` wrapper on GitHub is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 17 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Massed-Compute/mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-07-24 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-14 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | 2026-07-22 |\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 | 1 stars |\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**Massed Compute.** The hosted MCP server and REST API accept OAuth grants or API tokens in read-only and full-access tiers, and all 17 tools carry typed schemas and safety annotations in a public server card. No status page, rate limit figures or API changelog were found, a launch has no idempotency key, and the governing terms could not be read.\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### Massed Compute\n\n1. Use `https://vm.massedcompute.com/api/v1`. The older docs at api-docs.massedcompute.com describe a separate marketplace API on `api.massedcompute.com` whose keys come from support.\n2. Ask the owner for a read-only token unless the task must launch or terminate. Read-only credentials cannot call launch, restart, terminate or SSH key changes.\n3. Call `gpu_inventory_list` and `images_list` before `instances_launch`. Product names and image IDs are free values, and SXM-only images do not run on PCIe cards.\n4. Expect 402 on launch until the owner has added credit and set a recharge amount and threshold. List instances before retrying a launch.\n5. Terminate to end billing. Stopping keeps the full hourly charge, and termination deletes the instance data.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Beam or Massed Compute?\n\nBeam scores 55.5 (C) on agent readiness against Massed Compute's 42.3 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Massed Compute leads on schema \u0026 documentation and security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Can an agent call Beam and Massed Compute without installing anything?\n\nYes. Beam has a hosted endpoint at https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1 and Massed Compute at https://vm.massedcompute.com/api/v1.\n\n### Are Beam and Massed Compute open source?\n\nBeam is open source (AGPL-3.0). No open-source release is listed for Massed Compute.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-massed-compute.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-massed-compute.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"beam\", \"b\": \"massed-compute\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare beam massed-compute`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/beam.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/massed-compute.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Beam or Massed Compute\n\n- [Baseten vs Beam](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-beam.md)\n- [Baseten vs Massed Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baseten-vs-massed-compute.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 Crusoe Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/beam-vs-crusoe-cloud.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 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 Massed Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cerebrium-vs-massed-compute.md)\n- [CoreWeave vs Massed Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/coreweave-vs-massed-compute.md)\n- [Crusoe Cloud vs Massed Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crusoe-cloud-vs-massed-compute.md)\n- [Hugging Face Inference Endpoints vs Massed Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hugging-face-inference-endpoints-vs-massed-compute.md)\n- [Hyperbolic vs Massed Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hyperbolic-vs-massed-compute.md)\n- [Koyeb vs Massed Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/koyeb-vs-massed-compute.md)\n- [Lambda Cloud vs Massed Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lambda-vs-massed-compute.md)\n- [Massed Compute vs Modal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massed-compute-vs-modal.md)\n- [Massed Compute vs Nebius AI Cloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massed-compute-vs-nebius-ai-cloud.md)\n- [Massed Compute vs Northflank](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massed-compute-vs-northflank.md)\n- [Massed Compute vs Replicate Deployments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massed-compute-vs-replicate-deploy.md)\n- [Massed Compute vs Runpod](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massed-compute-vs-runpod.md)\n- [Massed Compute vs Thunder Compute](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massed-compute-vs-thunder-compute.md)\n- [Massed Compute vs Vast.ai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massed-compute-vs-vast-ai.md)\n- [Massed Compute vs Verda](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/massed-compute-vs-verda.md)\n",
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