Beam · FinOps Profile

Beam Cloud Finops

FinOps view of Beam (beam.cloud) spend. Beam bills serverless and sandbox compute per second - CPU per core-second, RAM per GB-second, and serverless GPUs per GPU-second - while dedicated on-demand GPU containers are metered per hour. Usage tiers (Developer, Team, Growth) add a subscription line and $30 of monthly credits; the dominant cost driver is per-second GPU container runtime, so cold-start speed, autoscaling, and idle keep-alive directly shape the bill.

Beam Cloud Finops is the FinOps profile for Beam on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 6 billable meters, billed in USD, on a monthly cycle, and pricing category usage-based.

The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Serverless, GPU, Python, Inference, and Containers.

Category: Compute Pricing: Usage-Based Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
ServerlessGPUPythonInferenceContainersFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsagePurchaseAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
Beam
PricingCategory
Usage-Based
ProviderName
Beam
PublisherName
Beam
ServiceCategory
Compute
ServiceName
Beam

Meters

cpu_core_seconds
Unit: core_seconds
CPU core-seconds consumed by serverless functions, endpoints, task queues, and sandboxes, billed per core per second.
ram_gb_seconds
Unit: gb_seconds
Memory GB-seconds consumed by running containers, billed per GB per second.
gpu_seconds_serverless
Unit: gpu_seconds
Serverless GPU-seconds (e.g. RTX 4090, A10G) consumed by autoscaled containers, billed per second.
gpu_hours_on_demand
Unit: hours
Dedicated on-demand GPU container hours (e.g. H100, A100, B200), billed per hour.
subscription_fee
Unit: months
Monthly usage-tier subscription (Developer $0, Team $89, Growth custom), inclusive of $30 monthly credits.
seats
Unit: seats
Additional team seats beyond those included in the tier, billed per seat per month.

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