Beam vs Spheron
8 GPUs in common. Beam is cheaper on 6, Spheron on 2; on average Spheron is 44% above Beam.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Beam | Spheron | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $4.11 | $9.36 | Beam −56% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.50 | $2.64 | Spheron −25% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $2.09 | $4.79 | Beam −56% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.36 | $1.43 | Beam −5% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $1.09 | $2.27 | Beam −52% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.91 | $0.68 | Spheron −25% | $0.69 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.76 | $0.96 | Beam −21% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.69 | $0.72 | Beam −4% | $0.60 |
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Questions
Is Beam or Spheron cheaper?
On the 8 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Beam is cheaper on 6 and Spheron on 2. On average Spheron is 44% 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 A6000; Spheron alone prices B300, MI300X, GH200, RTX 6000 Ada. They are different kinds of provider — Beam is a neocloud, Spheron 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. Spheron: 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.