# Beam vs Nebius AI Cloud (slim)

> Nebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Beam's 55.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Beam leads on payments & pricing. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Nebius AI Cloud scores 67.2 (B) on agent readiness against Beam's 55.5 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Beam leads on payments & pricing. Both do compute gpu.

- Beam: C 55.5, rank #588 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.min.md
- Nebius AI Cloud: B 67.2, rank #240 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nebius-ai-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 Payments & pricing, 40 against 20. Also Open source.
- Nebius AI Cloud, good for Teams that want whole GPU VMs or InfiniBand clusters in Europe, the UK, Israel or the US with IAM, Terraform and an SLA, and are content to manage endpoint lifecycles themselves. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 78 against 58; Agent ergonomics, 77 against 58; Security & auth, 81 against 50. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Beam | Nebius AI Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 58 | 78 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 58 | 77 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 81 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Beam | Nebius AI Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Beam | Nebius |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1` | `https://api.nebius.cloud` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for compute gpu | not published | $1.35 per GPU-hour |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary service under the Nebius Services Agreement. The API definitions, the Go, Python and JavaScript SDKs and the MCP server on GitHub are MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-14 | 2026-09-28 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | 2026-09-23 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 1.8k stars, 8.5k PyPI/wk | 4.1k npm/wk, 469k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |