# Flint vs Beam 1.0 501B-A23B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Flint and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/flint-40b-a2-5b-vs-reflection-beam
- Last updated: October 20, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Flint and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B has the lower published output-token price.
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Flint | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Recursive | Reflection AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 51.55 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 19 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B public-lane score: 49.9 (Supported · #50/132)

| Benchmark | Flint | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 54.9% | 80.1% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 36.1% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 51.1% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 76.8% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 80.5% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 74.2% | 81.6% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 80.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 43.3% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 66.1% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 31.8% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78.3% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 49.2% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B public-lane score: 78.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Flint | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | Coming soon | 16.3% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 67.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B public-lane score: 55.5 (Supported · #58/187)

| Benchmark | Flint | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 90.6% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 36% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: 94.7 (#3/152)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 89.2% | 79.6% | Flint |
| IFEval | 95.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Flint public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Flint | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 97.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Flint and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B?

Not yet. The models share only 3 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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## Explore More

- [Flint profile](/models/flint-40b-a2-5b)
- [Beam 1.0 501B-A23B profile](/models/reflection-beam)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
- [Alternative Finder](/tools/alternative-finder)
- [LLM Selector](/tools/llm-selector)
- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)