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It depends on the circumstances. Multiple Beasts portrayed in F/GO are immature or fragments of a larger entity and thus could quite plausibly be defeated by numerous earlier lore characters. On the other hand, fully fledged Beasts at the height of their power haven't generally been brought down by singular Heroic Spirits except via copious counterforce support, either, so asking "who" is kind of missing the point, right? They're raid bosses.

But honestly? Any of the DAAs who are magi or have similar abilities to manipulate reality, given the proper tools and opportunities, seem to have the ability to snowball out of control and become extremely major threats. For example, TATARI was able to replicate Marble Phantasm to a certain degree during Melty Blood; in Actress Again, Dust of Osiris was able to use this to create a "World Egg" which, after melting down enough victims into a Philosopher's Stone, would be able to cause a world-ending cataclysm by essentially imposing a reality that Osiris conceived of upon the planet. In Aoko and VSion's routes, they both encounter Roa, and in both cases, Roa expresses his intention of eating them so he can gain control of the Fifth True Magic and TATARI respectively. Imagine if he got both. Imagine if he kept going. Any DAA could theoretically rage out of control like this.

Let's say a Beast is causing an apocalypse. Goetia and Tiamat are good examples of a Beast going full force, essentially bringing their own personal armies to bear. The DAAs can do that too. The Burial Agency has members who are in fact on the level of Servants, and although they're a poor substitute for a Heroic Spirit, the legions of the executor sects would lay down their lives in the defense of their fellow man. Although most Magi are not remotely on the level of a Servant, there is an army of them, and a handful of them DO have relatively comparable power or could still fight against them to a certain degree (ala how Rin's strongest jewels could still damage Heracles), and among those magi, the elite of the elite really are bordering on the level of a Servant (Lorelei Barthomeloi, for example), who has fought DAAs.

All of these factions are known to hold troves of magical artifacts of potentially devastating scale and power in stock. For example, the Burial Agency has converted a sealed DAA, El Nahat, into a weapon.
>The artifact called the Book of the Stomach World. A peculiar vampire embodying refraction. Possesses the unique ability to almost certainly erase an opponent in one-on-one combat, but his own body is destroyed every time he uses it and requires several decades to revive. Thanks to that, he is currently sealed by the Church. Regarded as the Burial Agency's ultimate anti-Dead Apostle trump card, they only bring him out on rare occasions.
>His body is destroyed and all that's left is the summoning terminal; sealed in a room of mirrors. When the First or Second of the Burial Agency take him out they are invincible.

Any of these forces could likely stand against a Beast. I'd even go as far as to say they'd probably find a way to win, even if it killed most of them in the process. Basically all the DAAs could fight them, at least one of the DAAs needs to also become a raid boss, or the "good guy" factions need to form a raid party to win, just as portrayed in F/GO. As you can see, there's plenty of ways of looking at it.