Beam vs Vast.ai
10 GPUs in common. Beam is cheaper on 7, Vast.ai on 3; on average Vast.ai is 28% above Beam.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Beam | Vast.ai | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $4.11 | $8.75 | Beam −53% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.50 | $3.45 | Vast.ai −2% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $2.09 | $4.67 | Beam −55% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 PCIe | $1.83 | $2.88 | Beam −36% | $2.88 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.36 | $0.80 | Vast.ai −41% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $1.09 | $1.47 | Beam −26% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.91 | $0.68 | Vast.ai −25% | $0.69 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.76 | $0.80 | Beam −5% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.69 | $0.72 | Beam −4% | $0.60 |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 | $0.54 | $0.60 | Beam −10% | $0.56 |
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Questions
Is Beam or Vast.ai cheaper?
On the 10 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Beam is cheaper on 7 and Vast.ai on 3. On average Vast.ai is 28% 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; Vast.ai alone prices B300, H200 NVL, H100 NVL, L40, A40, RTX 6000 Ada, RTX 5080, RTX 4080, L4, RTX 3090, RTX A5000, V100 16GB, RTX A4000. They are different kinds of provider — Beam is a neocloud, Vast.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. Vast.ai: Public offer search, verified and rentable hosts only. Each offer is one observation; on-demand rate, not interruptible bids. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.