# GPT-5.4 vs Beam

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GPT-5.4 and Beam across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

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

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-5.4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Beam only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- GPT-5.4 leads overall 67.01 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 70.6% and 78.7%.
- Beam is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- GPT-5.4 also has the larger context window at 1.05M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GPT-5.4 | Beam |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenAI | Reflection AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Pending |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1.05M | null |
| Overall Score | 67.01 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 40 | 16 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.50 / $15.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 49.9 (Supported · #42/119)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 75.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 82.7% | 77.4% | GPT-5.4 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 75% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 70.6% | 78.7% | Beam |
| Toolathlon | 54.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | 98.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 60.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 73.6% | 80.1% | Beam |
| Gert Labs | 64.89% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 15.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 38.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | 6.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 11% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 48.7 (Supported · #45/144)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench Pro | 87.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 57.7% | 65.5% | Beam |
| React Native Evals | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | 67.42% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PostTrainBench v1.1 | 19.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 44.4% | 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 |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 80.9% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 49.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 60.6 (#21/27)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 74.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 0.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 93.67% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 65.5% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 69.3 (#20/49)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 81.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 53.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | 82.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 82.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 65.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 61.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 85.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 41.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 77.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 65.8 (Supported · #23/171)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 92.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 52.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 39.8% | 36.2% | GPT-5.4 |
| GPQA-D | 92.8% | 90.5% | GPT-5.4 |
| HealthBench Hard | 40.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | 59.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | 48.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 89.2 (#19/125)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.7% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.4 public-lane score: 64.4 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-5.4 | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 47.600% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 27.100% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 97.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GPT-5.4 or Beam?

GPT-5.4 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does GPT-5.4 cover on BenchLM?

GPT-5.4 currently has 40 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Beam cover on BenchLM?

Beam currently has 16 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

## Related Comparisons

- [GPT-5.4 vs GPT-5.4 Pro](/compare/gpt-5-4-vs-gpt-5-4-pro)
- [Beam vs GPT-5.4 Pro](/compare/gpt-5-4-pro-vs-reflection-beam)
- [GPT-5.4 vs GPT-5.4 mini](/compare/gpt-5-4-vs-gpt-5-4-mini)
- [Beam vs GPT-5.4 mini](/compare/gpt-5-4-mini-vs-reflection-beam)

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