Akash vs Beam
6 GPUs in common. Akash is cheaper on 3, Beam on 3; on average Beam is 8% above Akash.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Akash | Beam | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $5.00 | $4.11 | Beam −18% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $4.45 | $2.09 | Beam −53% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $2.71 | $3.50 | Akash −23% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.71 | $1.36 | Beam −20% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.68 | $0.91 | Akash −25% | $0.69 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.39 | $0.69 | Akash −43% | $0.60 |
Only one of them has it
Questions
Is Akash or Beam cheaper?
On the 6 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Akash is cheaper on 3 and Beam on 3. On average Beam is 8% more expensive than Akash across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.
What does one have that the other does not?
Akash alone prices B300, V100 16GB, T4, RTX 4080, RTX 3090; Beam alone prices H100 PCIe, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, L40S, RTX A6000. They are different kinds of provider — Akash is a marketplace, Beam a neocloud — which is most of why the prices differ.
Where do these prices come from?
Akash: Public pricing page, parsed. Per-GPU price is the listed per-GPU rate, or the node price divided by GPU count. Prices near reserved, committed or contract terms are discarded; anything outside a plausible range for the GPU is discarded. Beam: Public pricing page, parsed. Per-GPU price is the listed per-GPU rate, or the node price divided by GPU count. Prices near reserved, committed or contract terms are discarded; anything outside a plausible range for the GPU is discarded. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.