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Beam

Introduction

Installation

Quickstart

Core Concepts

Run anything in secure code execution environments

Overview

Learn how to configure and customize your sandbox environment

Configuration

Execute code and commands with real-time output streaming in your sandbox

Process Management

Expose ports dynamically for services running inside your sandbox

Networking

Upload, download, and manage files within your sandbox environment

File System Operations

Deploying and invoking web endpoints on Beam

Creating a Web Endpoint

Hosting a Web Server

Realtime and Streaming

This guide shows how you can optimize performance by pre-loading models when your container first starts.

Pre-Loading Models

Control how long your apps stay running before shutting down.

Keeping Containers Warm

Versioning

Sending file payloads to Endpoints and Web Servers

Sending File Payloads

A short guide on using Beam to run one-off functions in the cloud

Running Functions Remotely

Scheduled Jobs

Using Beam's distributed Queue to coordinate between tasks

Queues

Distributed Maps

Host a Web Service

Running Async Tasks

Querying Task Status

Container Images

Custom Registries

GPU Acceleration

CPU and RAM

How to store secrets and environment variables in Beam

Storing Secrets

Attach distributed storage volumes to your apps

Distributed Storage Volumes

Mounting S3 Buckets

Storing ephemeral files for images, audio files, and more.

Ephemeral Files and Images

Scaling Out

Concurrent Inputs

Parallelizing Functions

You can integrate Beam into an existing CI/CD process to deploy your code automatically.

Integrate into CI/CD

Timeouts and Retries

Public Endpoints

Setup a callback to your server when a task finishes running

Task Callbacks

Send Events Between Apps

Accessing information about the runtime while running tasks

Runtime Variables

Cold Start Performance

Working in Jupyter Notebooks

Remote vs. Local Environment

Beta9 is the open source project that powers Beam

Learn how to deploy Beam OSS (Beta9) to your local machine.

Local Machine

Learn how to deploy Beam OSS (Beta9) to Amazon EKS.

Amazon Web Services

Pricing and Billing

This is an ongoing list of issues people sometimes encounter while using Beam. If you're having an issue, check this list first.

These are the terms the Beam Platform is provided under.

Terms and Conditions

Privacy Policy

Run an OpenAI-Compatible vLLM Server

Chat with DeepSeek R1

A beginner's guide to running highly performant inference workloads on Beam.

Hugging Face Models

LLaMA 3.1 8B

Qwen2.5-7B with SGLang

Serverless ComfyUI

Text-to-Video with Mochi

Stable Diffusion with LoRAs

Faster Whisper

Parler TTS

Zonos

Web Scraping with Beam Functions

Running Streamlit Apps

Beam is launching a new type of agent framework that is stateful and has concurrency built-in. 

Building AI Agents

Example: Research Assistant

Fine-tuning Gemma with LoRA

Fine-Tuning Meta Llama 3.1 8B with Unsloth

SDK Reference

Node SDK

CLI Reference

API Reference

Say goodbye to AWS, Docker, and Terraform. Beam is a new way of running code on the cloud.

This guide will show you how to run powerful cloud functions with Beam.

Run any Python Remotely

Maps

Serverless ComfyUI API

High-Performance ML Inference

Mochi 1 Preview

Parler TTS API Example

This tutorial will show you how to migrate a Cog [Hello World](https://github.com/replicate/cog-examples/blob/main/hello-world/predict.py) app to Beam.

Migrate from Cog

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Beam V2 Guide & FAQ

These are the terms the Beam Machine Learning Platform is provided under.

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