Beam vs RunPod Secure Cloud
10 GPUs in common. Beam is cheaper on 8, RunPod Secure Cloud on 2; on average RunPod Secure Cloud is 41% above Beam.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Beam | RunPod Secure Cloud | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $4.11 | $6.79 | Beam −39% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.50 | $3.49 | RunPod Secure Cloud −0% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $2.09 | $4.59 | Beam −54% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 PCIe | $1.83 | $2.89 | Beam −37% | $2.88 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.36 | $1.59 | Beam −14% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $1.09 | $2.14 | Beam −49% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.91 | $0.99 | Beam −9% | $0.69 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.76 | $1.09 | Beam −30% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.69 | $0.74 | Beam −7% | $0.60 |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 | $0.54 | $0.53 | RunPod Secure Cloud −2% | $0.56 |
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Questions
Is Beam or RunPod Secure Cloud cheaper?
On the 10 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Beam is cheaper on 8 and RunPod Secure Cloud on 2. On average RunPod Secure Cloud is 41% 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; RunPod Secure Cloud alone prices B300, H200 NVL, H100 NVL, MI300X, RTX 6000 Ada, L40, RTX 5080, RTX 4080, RTX 3090, L4, A40, RTX A5000, RTX A4000.
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. RunPod Secure Cloud: Public GPU-type listing. Secure Cloud is RunPod's own datacentre capacity, quoted per GPU-hour. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.