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Beam Cloud

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Beta9

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
AGPL-3.0(OSI, copyleft)
source
public
managed-tier
Beam (beam.cloud) fully-managed GPU cloud (proprietary)
core features withheld
no — the whole AGPL-3.0 stack is in the repo - gateway, scheduler, worker, proto, deploy manifests and even the billing service - with no second license file and no license-key module, and Beam sells concurrency, seats and retention on the hosted cloud

Beta9 ships under AGPL-3.0, and the entire server stack — gateway, scheduler, worker and billing — sits in the same public tree, with no enterprise directory or license-key gate. Beam's managed cloud adds concurrency, seats and log retention, but withholds no capability and offers a self-hosted option that runs entirely in the customer's environment.

  • https://api.github.com/repos/beam-cloud/beta9 recorded 2026-08-12

    Repo metadata: language Go, license spdx_id AGPL-3.0, 1,741 stars, default branch main.

  • https://api.github.com/repos/beam-cloud/beta9/git/trees/main?recursive=1 recorded 2026-08-12

    Full untruncated recursive tree, 1,281 entries. Two license paths: the root LICENSE and one vendored sdk/src/beta9/vendor/pathspec/LICENSE. No ee/, enterprise/, commercial/ or proprietary/ directory. The top level carries the complete server stack - cmd/, pkg/, proto/, deploy/, manifests/, docker/, sdk/ - and the paid-service plumbing is open too: pkg/gateway/services/compute/billing.go is in the AGPL tree.

  • https://github.com/beam-cloud/beta9 recorded 2026-06-04

    AGPL-3.0 license; open source serverless AI runtime; engine powering managed Beam cloud (beam.cloud)

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beam-cloud/beta9/main/go.mod recorded 2026-09-29

    The server go.mod declares "module github.com/beam-cloud/beta9" and its first-party dependencies are ordinary public modules such as "github.com/beam-cloud/clip v0.0.0-20260926163325-4f8dd04be284"; no private module or license-key package is listed.

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beam-cloud/beta9/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-29

    The repository root LICENSE is the full text of the "GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE" at "Version 3, 19 November 2007".

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beam-cloud/beta9/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

    The public README describes Beam as "a fast, open-source runtime for serverless AI workloads", links an "https://img.shields.io/badge/License-AGPL-green" badge, and says "You can self-host Beta9 for free or choose managed cloud hosting through Beam."; searched the body for enterprise, license key, commercial and proprietary: none.

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beam-cloud/clip/master/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-29

    The clip dependency that beta9 imports is under the "MIT License" with "Copyright (c) 2024 beam.cloud", so this first-party dependency is OSI-licensed.

  • https://www.beam.cloud/pricing recorded 2026-09-29

    The Beam pricing page sells tiers that differ on "GPU Concurrency", "Log Retention" and seats ("3 seats included, $25 per additional seat"), and adds "We also offer a self-hosted product which runs entirely in your own environment".

Adoption

2 low confidence
2.0

GitHub stars are the only adoption signal for Beta9, since neither the open-source runtime nor Beam's managed cloud publishes a usage or customer count. A star is not a download, so this reads as attention rather than proven volume, and the README documents a `pip install beam-client` line, a distribution path this record has not yet measured.

Capability

3 medium confidence
3.0

Beta9 is a serverless container runtime with GPU support, persistent volumes, autoscaling and a sandbox primitive for model-generated code, and it launches containers in under a second. It isolates workloads at the container level rather than in a VM or microVM, which puts it two steps below Firecracker despite that launch speed.

  • https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/getting-started/introduction recorded 2026-09-29

    Introduction page says "Beam runs it in containers that launch in under a second" and lists functions, endpoints, task queues, sandboxes and GPU inference as workloads.

  • https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/sandbox/overview recorded 2026-09-29

    Sandbox overview describes "ultra-fast, Python-native environments for running any workload - with GPUs, networking, and persistent storage - in seconds" and states "Sandboxes cold boot in 1–3 seconds, even with dependencies included."

  • https://github.com/beam-cloud/beta9 recorded 2026-06-04

    serverless runtime: rapid container launches, parallelize across hundreds of containers, GPU support, volume storage, sandboxes

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beam-cloud/beta9/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-13

    Features are fast cold starts ("Launch containers in under a second using a custom container runtime, scheduler, and embedded caching"), fan-out to hundreds of containers, scale-to-zero, mounted distributed volumes, and GPU support (4090s, H100s, or bring your own). A Sandbox primitive spins up isolated containers to run LLM-generated code. No VM, microVM or application-kernel isolation tier is named anywhere.

  • https://www.beam.cloud/pricing recorded 2026-09-29

    Pricing FAQ says "Workloads are isolated from one another and run in non-root containers." and that a self-hosted product "runs entirely in your own environment".

  • https://www.computesdk.com/benchmarks/sandboxes/ recorded 2026-08-13

    ComputeSDK TTI leaderboard, run of 2026-08-07, 24 providers. Beam (the managed beta9 cloud) posts a 0.29s median, 0.42s P95, 0.43s P99 and 100% success for a composite of 96.6 - 4th-fastest by median.

  • https://www.computesdk.com/benchmarks/sandboxes/ recorded 2026-07-09

    ComputeSDK TTI leaderboard (independent, 100 iters/day, 2026-07-09 run): Beam (managed beta9) median time-to-interactive ~380ms sequential / ~810ms burst @100 concurrent; 8th of 19 providers