Beam

Beam (beam.cloud) is a serverless GPU and Python cloud-runtime platform. You write ordinary Python, decorate it, and Beam deploys it as a web endpoint, a task queue, a scheduled job, or a secure sandbox running on on-demand CPU and GPU containers with per-second billing, rapid cold starts, and automatic scaling.

Beam publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Task Queues API, Tasks API, and Web Endpoints API. Tagged areas include Serverless, GPU, Python, Inference, and Containers.

The Beam catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Beam’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, documentation, and 8 more developer resources.

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30.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 85/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Serverless GPU Python Inference Containers Real-Time

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 30.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 32.1 — up to +13.6 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 10.5 — up to +11.6 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Beam Task Queues API

The Task Queues API from Beam — 1 operation(s) for task queues.

Beam Tasks API

The Tasks API from Beam — 2 operation(s) for tasks.

Beam Web Endpoints API

The Web Endpoints API from Beam — 3 operation(s) for web endpoints.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Beam Task Queues API

OPEN COLLECTION

Beam Task Queues Tasks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Beam Task Queues Web Endpoints API

OPEN COLLECTION

Beam API

OPEN COLLECTION

Beam API pricing

Not yet checked against Beam's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-20 from www.beam.cloud/pricing; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Developer subscription	—
Team subscription	—
Growth enterprise	—
Serverless and Sandbox Compute usage	—
On-Demand GPU Containers usage	—

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Rate limits

GPU Container Concurrency: 5 (Developer) / 50 (Team) / custom (Growth) containers
CPU Container Concurrency: 30 (Developer) / 1000 (Team) / unlimited (Growth) containers
Synchronous Endpoint Timeout: ~180 seconds

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Beam's documentation. All 4 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Beam Cloud Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Beam Cloud Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Beam

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Beam Cloud Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Beam Realtime Endpoints (WebSocket)

AsyncAPI 2.6 description of Beam's **realtime endpoint** surface. Unlike the synchronous REST web endpoints, a Beam realtime app is deployed and, per the docs (https://docs.beam...

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Beam — asyncapi rules

4 rules · 1 errors 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Beam Cloud Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Beam Cloud Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Beam Cloud Agentic Access

6 operations · 5 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: beam-cloud
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/beam-cloud/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Beam
kind: company
description: Beam (beam.cloud) is a serverless GPU and Python cloud-runtime platform. You write ordinary Python, decorate
  it, and Beam deploys it as a web endpoint, a task queue, a scheduled job, or a secure sandbox running on on-demand CPU and
  GPU containers with per-second billing, rapid cold starts, and automatic scaling.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - beam-cloud/beta9
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/beam-cloud.png
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-20
x-docs-hosting: vercel
tags:
- Serverless
- GPU
- Python
- Inference
- Containers
- Real-Time
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: beam-cloud:beam-cloud-task-queues-api
  name: Beam Task Queues API
  description: The Task Queues API from Beam — 1 operation(s) for task queues.
  humanURL: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/endpoint/overview
  baseURL: https://app.beam.cloud
  tags:
  - Task Queues
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/beam-cloud-task-queues-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/endpoint/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/getting-started/quickstart
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/beam-cloud.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/beam-cloud.opencollection.json
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/beam-cloud-asyncapi.yml
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/beam-cloud/beta9
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/task-queue/running-tasks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/task-queue/query-status
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/reference/api-docs/tasks/tasks-status
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/reference/api-docs/tasks/tasks-cancel
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/sandbox/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/data/volume
- aid: beam-cloud:beam-cloud-tasks-api
  name: Beam Tasks API
  description: The Tasks API from Beam — 2 operation(s) for tasks.
  humanURL: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/endpoint/overview
  baseURL: https://app.beam.cloud
  tags:
  - Task
  tags_raw:
  - Tasks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/beam-cloud-tasks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/endpoint/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/getting-started/quickstart
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/beam-cloud.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/beam-cloud.opencollection.json
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/beam-cloud-asyncapi.yml
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/beam-cloud/beta9
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/task-queue/running-tasks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/task-queue/query-status
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/reference/api-docs/tasks/tasks-status
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/reference/api-docs/tasks/tasks-cancel
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/sandbox/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/data/volume
- aid: beam-cloud:beam-cloud-web-endpoints-api
  name: Beam Web Endpoints API
  description: The Web Endpoints API from Beam — 3 operation(s) for web endpoints.
  humanURL: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/endpoint/overview
  baseURL: https://app.beam.cloud
  tags:
  - Web Endpoints
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/beam-cloud-web-endpoints-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/endpoint/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/getting-started/quickstart
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/beam-cloud.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/beam-cloud.opencollection.json
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/beam-cloud-asyncapi.yml
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/beam-cloud/beta9
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/task-queue/running-tasks
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/task-queue/query-status
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/reference/api-docs/tasks/tasks-status
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/reference/api-docs/tasks/tasks-cancel
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/sandbox/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.beam.cloud/v2/data/volume
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/beam-cloud-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/beam-cloud-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/beam-cloud-authentication.yml
- url: https://www.beam.cloud/blog
  type: Blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/beam-cloud
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beam-cloud
- type: Website
  url: https://www.beam.cloud
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.beam.cloud
- type: Plans
  url: plans/beam-cloud-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/beam-cloud-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/beam-cloud-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Beam API — frequently asked questions

Does Beam have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Beam, including Beam Task Queues API, Beam Tasks API and Beam Web Endpoints API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Beam API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Beam, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Beam API?

Beam uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Beam Cloud Authentication.

How much does the Beam API cost?

APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for Beam, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Beam API ready for AI agents?

Beam has a Kin Score of 30.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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