How Beam Works

A crash course on Beam. Learn about running functions, deploying endpoints, and testing your code.

Run the Quickstart

Install Beam and deploy a simple hello-world app to learn how Beam works.

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Features

  • Run serverless workloads on CPUs and GPUs in the cloud
  • Instantly deploy any existing Docker image as a REST API
  • Deploy task queues, scheduled jobs, and long-running functions
  • Automatically scale jobs to thousands of containers
  • Ultrafast cold-starts

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Get Started in 60 Seconds

Hello World

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End-to-End Tutorials

Faster Whisper

Run Faster Whisper as an API

LLaMA 3.1 8B

Develop and deploy an API for LLaMA 3.1

Stable Diffusion LoRAs

Learn to use custom LoRAs with Stable Diffusion

vLLM Inference Server

Deploy a vLLM Inference Server

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