Run the Hello World
Run a basic Hello World and learn Beam interactively.
Core Concepts
Learn about running functions, deploying endpoints, and testing your code.
Features
Beam is an open-source cloud platform that lets you:- Run serverless workloads on CPUs and GPUs
- Securely execute code generated by LLMs in Sandboxes
- Launch containers in the cloud in under 1 second
- Instantly deploy any existing Docker image as a REST API
- Deploy task queues, scheduled jobs, and long-running functions with no timeouts
- Automatically scale jobs to thousands of containers
Get Started
1
🎁 Create an Account
Create an account on Beam. You’ll get 15 hours of free credit when you signup!
2
🚧 Activate a Python Virtual Environment (Recommended)
Activate a Python virtualenv, which is where you’ll install the Beam SDK.
3
📝 Register API Token and Install SDK
Retrieve your API token from the dashboard, on the API Keys page.Paste the token in the command below to install the Beam SDK. Make sure to replace Your API key will be saved to the
[TOKEN] with your actual token.~/.beam/config.ini file on your computer.Give us a star on Github! Beam is
completely open source.