Beam vs Vast.ai
10 GPUs in common. Beam is cheaper on 6, Vast.ai on 4; on average Vast.ai is 24% above Beam.
Prices collected 2026-10-11
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Beam | Vast.ai | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $4.11 | $7.50 | Beam −45% | $6.99 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.50 | $6.15 | Beam −43% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $2.09 | $5.00 | Beam −58% | $4.50 |
| NVIDIA H100 PCIe | $1.83 | $2.29 | Beam −20% | $2.29 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.36 | $0.93 | Vast.ai −31% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $1.09 | $1.45 | Beam −25% | $2.23 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.91 | $0.57 | Vast.ai −37% | $0.81 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.76 | $0.80 | Beam −5% | $1.29 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.69 | $0.49 | Vast.ai −29% | $0.48 |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 | $0.54 | $0.40 | Vast.ai −26% | $0.58 |
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Questions
Is Beam or Vast.ai cheaper?
On the 10 GPUs both price on 2026-10-11, Beam is cheaper on 6 and Vast.ai on 4. On average Vast.ai is 24% 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, RTX 6000 Ada, A40, RTX 5080, L4, RTX 4080, 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.