# Beam vs Verda (slim)

> Verda scores 62.3 (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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Verda scores 62.3 (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
- Verda: B 62.3, rank #396 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/verda.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.
- Verda, good for Agents that rent whole GPU machines or clusters in Finland for training or batch work, or deploy scale-to-zero container endpoints, and that can run a local CLI for MCP. Ahead on Reliability, 67 against 55; Schema & documentation, 82 against 58; Agent ergonomics, 63 against 58; Security & auth, 68 against 50. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Beam | Verda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 55 | 67 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 58 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 58 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 50 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Beam | Verda |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Beam | Verda |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.beam.cloud/api/v1` | `https://api.verda.com/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary service under Verda's Terms of Service. The CLI, the Python SDK and the Go SDK on GitHub are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | none | 18 |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-14 | 2025-09-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-14 | no date given |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 1.8k stars, 8.5k PyPI/wk | 10k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (2) | none |