# Beam vs Massed Compute (slim)

> Beam scores 55.5 (C) to Massed Compute's 42.3 (E) for gpu compute. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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 & documentation and security & auth. Both do gpu compute.

- Beam: C 55.5, rank #654 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.min.md
- Massed Compute: E 42.3, rank #896 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/massed-compute.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 Reliability, 55 against 20; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 85 against 51; Transparency & trust, 74 against 61. Also Open source.
- Massed Compute, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 69 against 58; Security & auth, 61 against 50.

| Category | Beam | Massed Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 20 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 58 | 69 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 58 | 56 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 51 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Beam | Massed Compute |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Beam | Massed Compute |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1` | `https://vm.massedcompute.com/api/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for gpu compute | not published | $5.43 per GPU-hour |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary service under Massed Compute's Terms & Conditions and End User Licence Agreement. The `massed-compute-mcp` wrapper on GitHub is MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 17 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Massed-Compute/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-07-24 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-14 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | 2026-07-22 |
| 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 | 1 stars |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |