# Beam Documentation


- **Start here**
- [What is Beam?](/docs/intro): Learn how Beam coordinates measurable, verifiable, and incentivized data transfer.
- [Architecture](/docs/architecture): Understand the Beam network topology, component roles, control plane, and data plane.

- **Build with Beam**
- [Build with Beam](/docs/clients): Start here as a client: send transfers with the SDK, CLI, Studio, or HTTP API, connect your storage, and pay for what you move.
- [Developer Quickstart](/docs/developer-quickstart): Create an API key in the Console, install Beam Studio and the Beam CLI, and send your first transfer.
- [Beam SDK](/docs/sdk): Create and manage transfers from Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, or the browser.
- [Beam CLI](/docs/cli): Install the Beam CLI, sign in, and move data from a terminal.
- [Beam Studio](/docs/studio): Design and operate data movement visually, then connect Studio to your Beam organization.
- [How Transfers Work](/docs/transfers): Follow the Beam transfer lifecycle from creation through verified completion and recovery.
- Connectors
  - [Connectors](/docs/connectors): Integrate Beam with supported object storage and HTTP providers.
  - [Amazon S3](/docs/connectors/s3): Configure Amazon S3 and S3-compatible providers for Beam transfers.
  - [Cloudflare R2](/docs/connectors/r2): Configure Cloudflare R2 as a source or destination for Beam transfers.
  - [Google Cloud Storage](/docs/connectors/gcs): Configure Google Cloud Storage as a source or destination for Beam transfers.
  - [HTTP Connector](/docs/connectors/http): Configure direct HTTP sources and destinations for Beam transfers.
  - [Hippius](/docs/connectors/hippius): Configure Hippius storage as a source or destination for Beam transfers.
- [Billing & Payments](/docs/billing): Understand how Beam credits and plans are paid for by card, by USDC, and by TAO or Beam subnet alpha.
- [Account Management API](/docs/management-api): Create, freeze, rotate and revoke API keys, and read credits, usage and auto top-up settings, without a browser.

- **API reference**
- [API Reference](/docs/api-reference): Use the BeamCore client API: base URL, authentication, and the transfer endpoints behind every SDK.
- auth
  - [/auth/challenge](/docs/api/auth/auth/challenge/post)
  - [/auth/verify](/docs/api/auth/auth/verify/post)
  - [/auth/me](/docs/api/auth/auth/me/get)
  - [/auth/keys](/docs/api/auth/auth/keys/get)
  - [/auth/keys](/docs/api/auth/auth/keys/post)
  - [/auth/keys/{key_prefix}](/docs/api/auth/auth/keys/key_prefix/delete)
- clients
  - [/clients/register](/docs/api/clients/clients/register/post)
  - [/clients/{client_id}](/docs/api/clients/clients/client_id/get)
  - [/clients](/docs/api/clients/clients/get)
- destinations
  - [/destinations](/docs/api/destinations/destinations/get)
  - [/destinations](/docs/api/destinations/destinations/post)
  - [/destinations/{destination_id}](/docs/api/destinations/destinations/destination_id/get)
  - [/destinations/{destination_id}](/docs/api/destinations/destinations/destination_id/delete)
  - [/destinations/{destination_id}](/docs/api/destinations/destinations/destination_id/put)
- transfers
  - [/transfers](/docs/api/transfers/transfers/get)
  - [/transfers/{transfer_id}](/docs/api/transfers/transfers/transfer_id/get)
- webhooks
  - [/webhooks/sentry](/docs/api/webhooks/webhooks/sentry/post)
- jobs
  - [/jobs/{job_id}](/docs/api/jobs/jobs/job_id/get)
  - [/jobs](/docs/api/jobs/jobs/get)

- **Platform**
- health
  - [/health](/docs/api/health/health/get)
- docs
  - [/docs/](/docs/api/docs/docs/get)
  - [/docs/static/index.html](/docs/api/docs/docs/static/index-html/get)
  - [/docs/static/swagger-initializer.js](/docs/api/docs/docs/static/swagger-initializer-js/get)
  - [/docs/json](/docs/api/docs/docs/json/get)
  - [/docs/yaml](/docs/api/docs/docs/yaml/get)
  - [/docs/static/{*}](/docs/api/docs/docs/static/wildcard/get)
  - [/docs/static/{*}](/docs/api/docs/docs/static/wildcard/head)
- openapi.json
  - [/openapi.json](/docs/api/openapi.json/openapi-json/get)
- redoc
  - [/redoc](/docs/api/redoc/redoc/get)

- **For AI agents**
- [Beam for Agents](/docs/agent): A capability and solution-design guide for AI agents: assess where Beam fits, explain its value and limits, and help public clients plan an integration.