Amazon Web Services vs Beam
5 GPUs in common. Amazon Web Services is cheaper on 0, Beam on 5; on average Beam is 66% below Amazon Web Services.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Amazon Web Services | Beam | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $14.24 | $4.11 | Beam −71% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $7.91 | $2.09 | Beam −74% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $6.88 | $3.50 | Beam −49% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $3.43 | $1.36 | Beam −60% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $3.39 | $0.76 | Beam −78% | $1.47 |
Only one of them has it
Questions
Is Amazon Web Services or Beam cheaper?
On the 5 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Amazon Web Services is cheaper on 0 and Beam on 5. On average Beam is 66% cheaper than Amazon Web Services across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.
What does one have that the other does not?
Amazon Web Services alone prices V100 32GB, V100 16GB, A100 40GB, A10G, L4, T4; Beam alone prices H100 PCIe, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, RTX 5090, RTX 4090, RTX A6000. They are different kinds of provider — Amazon Web Services is a hyperscaler, Beam a neocloud — which is most of why the prices differ.
Where do these prices come from?
Amazon Web Services: Public on-demand price list for Linux, us-east-1. Instance price divided by GPU count. 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.