Beam vs GPU.ai
10 GPUs in common. Beam is cheaper on 6, GPU.ai on 4; on average GPU.ai is 21% above Beam.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Beam | GPU.ai | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $4.11 | $7.78 | Beam −47% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.50 | $3.69 | Beam −5% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $2.09 | $3.59 | Beam −42% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 PCIe | $1.83 | $2.43 | Beam −25% | $2.88 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.36 | $1.21 | GPU.ai −11% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $1.09 | $1.84 | Beam −41% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.91 | $0.73 | GPU.ai −19% | $0.69 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.76 | $0.80 | Beam −4% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.69 | $0.60 | GPU.ai −13% | $0.60 |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 | $0.54 | $0.44 | GPU.ai −19% | $0.56 |
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Questions
Is Beam or GPU.ai cheaper?
On the 10 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Beam is cheaper on 6 and GPU.ai on 4. On average GPU.ai is 21% more expensive than Beam across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.
What does one have that the other does not?
Beam alone prices nothing the other lacks; GPU.ai alone prices H200 NVL, H100 NVL, A100 40GB, L40, RTX 5080, RTX 6000 Ada, A40, L4, RTX 4080, RTX 3090, RTX A5000. They are different kinds of provider — Beam is a neocloud, GPU.ai a marketplace — which is most of why the prices differ.
Where do these prices come from?
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. GPU.ai: 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.