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Reflection AI

Beam 501B-A23B

Sparse mixture-of-experts reasoning model with 23B active parameters for coding and agentic workflows

Released
Oct 5 2026
Modality
Text
Context
1M tokens
Price in / cached input / out
$0.00 / $0.00 / $0.00per 1M tokens
New prices start Nov 9

Quickstart

OpenAI-compatible: change the base URL, and the setup is complete.

from openai import OpenAI
import os

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.you.com/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["YDC_API_KEY"],
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="beam-501b-a23b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this support ticket in two sentences."}],
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Specifications

Technical details, capabilities, pricing, and data handling.

Model info

Input Modality
Text
Output Modality
Text
Context Window
1M
Parameters
501B total / 23B active
License
Apache 2.0

Capabilities

Reasoning
Supported
Function calling
Supported
Structured outputs
Supported
Web search grounding
Not supported

Pricing

Input
$0.00
Cached input
$0.00
Output
$0.00

Data handling

Zero data retention
Supported
No training on customer data
Supported
Regions
US

Providers

Access models through multiple providers with automatic routing and built-in failover.

Providers serving Beam 501B-A23B
ProviderZDRNo trainingRegion
Reflection AIYesYes
US

When to use Beam 501B-A23B

Guidance based on the specifications and benchmarks on this page.

Best for

  • Token-efficient reasoningReflection reports quality comparable to leading open models using about 3x fewer reasoning tokens.
  • Agentic codingScores 81.6% on SWE-bench Verified and 80.1% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, per Reflection.
  • Long-horizon tool useBuilt for multi-step MCP workflows, scoring 80.8% on MCP-Atlas with a 1M-token context window.
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Consider alternatives for

  • You need image, audio, or video inputBeam takes text in and produces text out only.
  • You need the strongest long-horizon software engineeringBeam scores 43.3% on DeepSWE v1.1, where Muse Wonder 1.0 (78.8%) and Kimi K3 (67.5%) lead.
  • You work mainly in languages other than EnglishReflection says Beam was developed predominantly for English.

Benchmarks

Beam 501B-A23B results alongside comparable models

Reasoning benchmark scores
BenchmarkBeam 501B-A23BReflection AIDeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeekKimi K3Moonshot AIQwen3.8 MaxAlibabaDeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeekKimi K3.1 ProMoonshot AI
GPQA Diamond90.6%90.1%93.5%92.6%90.9%94.2%
Humanity's Last Exam36%37.7%43.5%43.6%36.8%51.1%
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)51.1%48.2%56%56.2%63.9%70%
AIME 202697.7%Not evaluatedNot evaluatedNot evaluatedNot evaluatedNot evaluated
IFBench79.6%Not evaluatedNot evaluated82.8%Not evaluatedNot evaluated

Scores are self-reported by each model’s developer, so settings may vary between models. Sources: Beam 501B-A23B (Hugging Face), DeepSeek V4 Pro (Hugging Face), Kimi K3 (Hugging Face), Qwen3.8 Max (Hugging Face), Qwen3.8 Max (release post), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (Hugging Face), Kimi K3.1 Pro (release post).

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