Beam vs RunPod Community Cloud
10 GPUs in common. Beam is cheaper on 5, RunPod Community Cloud on 5; on average RunPod Community Cloud is 4% above Beam.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Beam | RunPod Community Cloud | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $4.11 | $5.98 | Beam −31% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.50 | $2.69 | RunPod Community Cloud −23% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $2.09 | $3.59 | Beam −42% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 PCIe | $1.83 | $1.99 | Beam −8% | $2.88 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.36 | $1.29 | RunPod Community Cloud −5% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $1.09 | $1.69 | Beam −36% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.91 | $0.69 | RunPod Community Cloud −24% | $0.69 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.76 | $0.79 | Beam −4% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.69 | $0.34 | RunPod Community Cloud −51% | $0.60 |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 | $0.54 | $0.33 | RunPod Community Cloud −39% | $0.56 |
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Questions
Is Beam or RunPod Community Cloud cheaper?
On the 10 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Beam is cheaper on 5 and RunPod Community Cloud on 5. On average RunPod Community Cloud is 4% 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 Community Cloud alone prices B300, H100 NVL, A100 40GB, RTX 6000 Ada, L40, H200 NVL, MI300X, L4, RTX 5080, A40, RTX 4080, RTX 3090, V100 16GB, RTX A4000, RTX A5000. They are different kinds of provider — Beam is a neocloud, RunPod Community Cloud 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. RunPod Community Cloud: Third-party hosts renting through RunPod. Quoted per GPU-hour; a listing may have no hosts behind it. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.