Beam vs Modal
6 GPUs in common. Beam is cheaper on 6, Modal on 0; on average Modal is 100% above Beam.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Beam | Modal | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $4.11 | $6.25 | Beam −34% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.50 | $3.95 | Beam −11% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $2.09 | $4.54 | Beam −54% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.36 | $2.50 | Beam −46% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $1.09 | $3.03 | Beam −64% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.76 | $1.95 | Beam −61% | $1.47 |
Only one of them has it
Questions
Is Beam or Modal cheaper?
On the 6 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Beam is cheaper on 6 and Modal on 0. On average Modal is 100% 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 H100 PCIe, RTX 5090, RTX 4090, RTX A6000; Modal alone prices B300, A100 40GB, A10, L4, T4.
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. Modal: 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.