Beam
- Free allowance
- No signup credit. 'Developer $20/month $20 in credits each month', and 'Unused monthly credits expire at renewal.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 22.34/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaUSD 20 of credits a month on a USD 20 a month plan; unused credits expire at renewal; 1 vCPU USD 0.0252 an hour and 1 GiB USD 0.0054 an hour, so USD 0.0306 an hour for the smallest VM
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
| Free tier | No signup credit. 'Developer $20/month $20 in credits each month', and 'Unused monthly credits expire at renewal. Extra credits don't expire.' unit none; metered on wall-clock; A plan credit equal to the plan fee. Recording it as a credit would double-count the subscription. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
The Developer plan includes one seat; extra seats are USD 25 each on Team. |
| Binding | volume-quota USD 20 against USD 22.34 for a month of the smallest VM is what fails, by USD 2.34, and the credit resets rather than accumulating. |
| Identity | card The USD 20 credit is bought with a USD 20 monthly subscription, which requires a card. No hold amount is stated. There is no card-free path to the credit. |
| Egress | 'Egress & bandwidth | Free'. free allowance: unmetered |
| Per-object cap | A persistent VM is 'from $0.0306/hr' for '1 vCPU / 1 GiB / 50 GiB root disk' ('1 vCPU $0.0252' plus '1 GiB RAM $0.0054'). Sandboxes are 'from $0.319/hr'. |
| Retention | A stopped VM keeps its root disk; the page prices storage separately at '$0.021 per GB / month'. No deletion timer is stated. |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Reliability | Stopped VMs keep billing for their root disk and volumes, so a 'stopped' VM is not a free VM. |
| Notes | Beam appears in credit tables as a USD 20 plan credit and should not: the money and the subscription are the same USD 20, so the row is 'pay USD 20, get USD 20 of VM time'. At USD 0.0306 an hour that is 653 hours, 89% of a month, and the remaining 77 hours cost USD 2.34 out of pocket. |
| Evidence note | documented The plan credit, its expiry rule, the VM and sandbox rates and the stopped-VM behaviour are on the pricing page read. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | www.beam.cloud/pricing | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | www.beam.cloud/pricing | 'Persistent Linux VMs for agents. Billed per second while running, with no compute charges while stopped.' and '1 vCPU $0.0252, 1 GiB RAM $0.0054, 50 GiB root disk Included, Rate $0.0306/hr' and 'Sandboxes from $0.319/hr', quoted |
| 2026-10-24 | www.beam.cloud/pricing | quoted: 'Developer $20/month $20 in credits each month'; 'Unused monthly credits expire at renewal. Extra credits don't expire.'; '1 vCPU $0.0252', '1 GiB RAM $0.0054', 'Rate $0.0306/hr' for the VM; 'Sandboxes from $0.319/hr'; 'Egress & bandwidth | Free'. |
| 2026-10-24 | www.beam.cloud/pricing | quoted: 'Developer $20/month $20 in credits each month', 'Unused monthly credits expire at renewal', and the VM rate 'VMs from $0.0306/hr' for '1 vCPU / 1 GiB RAM / 50 GiB root disk' |
More fields 18
| keep rate | 0.0 |
|---|---|
| keep rate basis | first-party: cores ( 4 vCPU) and 16 GiB RAM costs $1.77 /hr ( $0.69 GPU + $0.76 CPU + $0.32 RAM , at the GPU-attached rates |
| billing model | per-second while running |
| shape | {"vcpu": 1,"ram_gib": 1,"disk_gib": 50,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "a VM runs until stopped; a stopped VM bills disk only"} |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "HTTP endpoints and exposed ports","static_ip": null,"ipv6": null,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| free tier kind | plan-credit |
| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 0,"rounding_s": null} |
| burst x | 1.0 |
| ps | {"gib": 50,"price": "included in the VM rate","durability": "root disk","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "while the VM exists"} |
| term | monthly |
| m10h usd | 9.18 |
| m24h usd | 22.34 |
| price arithmetic | 0.0252 + 0.0054 = 0.0306/h; x 730 = 22.34; 20 / 0.0306 = 653.6 h |
| credit usd | 20 |
| credit months at shape | 0.9 |
| credit hours at shape | 653.6 |
| credit expiry | monthly; unused credits expire at renewal, purchased credits do not |
Unknown values 3
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field