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Beam is a serverless GPU platform that lets developers deploy AI models and run H100, A100, and T4 compute jobs with automatic scaling and per-second pay-per-use billing — no infrastructure management required. A Python-native SDK (`beam deploy`) and fast cold starts make it easy to build and ship LLM inference APIs, batch ML pipelines, and AI model serving endpoints quickly. Beam handles container builds, GPU provisioning, and scaling automatically. Free tier available. A strong choice for Python-first teams that want serverless GPU infrastructure with predictable, usage-based pricing.
- Python-native SDK — `beam deploy` ships a GPU endpoint in minutes
- Auto-scaling with fast cold starts — no idle cost
- Per-second billing — pay only for actual compute time
- Free tier available for prototyping
- Handles container builds and GPU provisioning automatically
- Less control over underlying infrastructure vs raw VMs
- Smaller GPU catalog than dedicated cluster providers
- Not suitable for multi-node distributed training
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Packet AI offers dedicated single-tenant and dynamic scheduler-managed shared GPU instances for AI workloads. Both deployment options are available with on-demand hourly and monthly billing. Packet AI also provides Token Factory, a managed LLM inference API with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for teams that want to serve models without operating their own inference stack.
- Dedicated and dynamic GPU instances
- Hourly and monthly billing
- Managed OpenAI-compatible LLM inference API
- Single-tenant deployment option
- Smaller ecosystem than hyperscale clouds
- Some GPU configurations are region-specific
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Beam
Serverless GPU infrastructure — Python-native, auto-scaling, per-second billing
Packet AI
Dedicated and dynamic GPU instances with managed LLM inference