# GPT-4.1 vs Beam

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GPT-4.1 and Beam across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gpt-4-1-vs-reflection-beam
- Last updated: October 5, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: GPT-4.1 and Beam share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Beam has the lower published output-token price.
- GPT-4.1 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GPT-4.1 | Beam |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenAI | Reflection AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Pending |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | null |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 37.85 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 16 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $8.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gert Labs | 25.65% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 78.7% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 77.4% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 54.6% | 80.9% | Beam |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 44.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 65.5% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 34.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 49.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: 69.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 65.5% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: 51.3 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: 35.9 (Supported · #113/171)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 90.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 90.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 36.2% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: 61.5 (#13/16)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 72.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: 48.9 (#82/125)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 87.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.7% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: 28 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-4.1 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 5.517% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 0.000% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 97.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between GPT-4.1 and Beam?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, 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.

## Related Comparisons

- [GPT-4.1 vs GPT-4.1 mini](/compare/gpt-4-1-vs-gpt-4-1-mini)
- [Beam vs GPT-4.1 mini](/compare/gpt-4-1-mini-vs-reflection-beam)
- [GPT-4.1 vs GPT-4.1 nano](/compare/gpt-4-1-vs-gpt-4-1-nano)
- [Beam vs GPT-4.1 nano](/compare/gpt-4-1-nano-vs-reflection-beam)

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