Beam vs Modal vs Lambda vs RunPod

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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Modal
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Lambda
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RunPod
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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 Modal
modal.com
Run AI code without infrastructure
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Competitor Lambda
lambda.ai
Lambda is a GPU cloud built for training and serving AI models.
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Competitor RunPod
runpod.io
Cheap GPUs on demand
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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972.8Kvisits/mo
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2.8Mvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 5.7%
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▲ 14.2%
6-month growth
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+13.6%
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+19.0%
Global rank web
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#43,856
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#19,060
Avg. last 3 months
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960K
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2.5M
Bounce rate lower is better
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37%
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32%
Pages / visit
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6.6
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7.4
Visit duration
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5m 31s
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8m 19s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 94% · ● Referral 5%
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● Direct 78% · ● Referral 21%
BeamModalLambdaRunPod
0701.3K1.4M2.1M2.8MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8KRunPod · 1.8MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 2.4MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.2MRunPod · 2.5MRunPod · 2.8M100K1M10MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8KRunPod · 1.8MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 2.4MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.2MRunPod · 2.5MRunPod · 2.8MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
$89per month · free tier available
$250per month · free tier available
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Plans
Developer FreeTeam $89/moGrowth Custom
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
On-demand instances (8x GPU) CustomOn-demand instances (1x GPU) Custom1-Click Clusters CustomReserved / Superclusters Custom
Pods (Community Cloud) Custom/hourServerless Custom/hourClusters Custom/hourStorage Custom/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
Code
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CodeData
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Output
Apps
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Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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GPU infrastructure
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