Beam vs Chroma vs RunPod vs Modal

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Beam
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Chroma
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RunPod
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Modal
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Beam
beam.cloud
Beam is a cloud runtime for AI workloads that offers serverless GPUs, task queues and sandboxes through a Python, TypeScript and Go SDK.
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Competitor Chroma
trychroma.com
Chroma is open-source search infrastructure for AI, released under Apache 2.0.
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Competitor RunPod
runpod.io
Cheap GPUs on demand
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Competitor Modal
modal.com
Run AI code without infrastructure
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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2.8Mvisits/mo
972.8Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 14.2%
▲ 5.7%
6-month growth
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+19.0%
+13.6%
Global rank web
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#19,060
#43,856
Avg. last 3 months
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2.5M
960K
Bounce rate lower is better
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32%
37%
Pages / visit
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7.4
6.6
Visit duration
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8m 19s
5m 31s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 78% · ● Referral 21%
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 5%
BeamChromaRunPodModal
0701.3K1.4M2.1M2.8MRunPod · 1.8MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 2.4MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.2MRunPod · 2.5MRunPod · 2.8MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8K100K1M10MRunPod · 1.8MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 2.4MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.2MRunPod · 2.5MRunPod · 2.8MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$89per month · free tier available
$250per month · free tier available
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$250per month · free tier available
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Plans
Developer FreeTeam $89/moGrowth Custom
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Pods (Community Cloud) Custom/hourServerless Custom/hourClusters Custom/hourStorage Custom/mo
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Code
DataText
CodeData
Code
Output
Apps
Data
Apps
Apps
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
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Developer tools
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RAG
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Self hosted
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LLM development
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Performance optimization
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Virtual computing
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