# GPT-5.5 vs Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GPT-5.5 and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gpt-5-5-vs-reflection-beam-nvfp4
- Last updated: October 16, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-5.5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 leads overall 70 to 69.27.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 70.4 for GPT-5.5 and 85.5 for Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is BrowseComp in Agentic, with scores of 84.4% and 75.6%.
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GPT-5.5 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenAI | Reflection AI |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 69.27 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 42 | 19 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $30.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 62.7 (Supported · #23/128)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 82% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 81.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 84.4% | 75.6% | GPT-5.5 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 78.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 75.3% | 80.5% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 |
| Toolathlon | 55.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | 98% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 72.93% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 17.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 13.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 42.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | 13.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 76.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 20% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MazeBench | 0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 35.4% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 51.1% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 81.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 62 (Supported · #14/150)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | 58.6% | 65.6% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 82.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | 69.85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | 59.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 58.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 43.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 82.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PostTrainBench v1.1 | 27.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 42.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 31.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 77.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 80.7% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 46.9% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 70.4 (#20/28)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: 85.5 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCR v2 64K-128K | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCR v2 128K-256K | 87.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 0.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 95.00% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 15.4% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 75.5 (#23/54)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 81.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | 83.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 54.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 72 (Supported · #14/184)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 93.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 93.6% | 89.3% | GPT-5.5 |
| HLE | 52.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 41.4% | 34.8% | GPT-5.5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 88.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 93.3 (#8/148)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: 86.2 (#44/148)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.2% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- GPT-5.5 public-lane score: 91.2 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: 87.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath (legacy) | 51.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 85.263% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 72.500% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 97.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GPT-5.5 or Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4?

Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GPT-5.5 and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 70.4 for GPT-5.5 and 85.5 for Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4.

### How many benchmarks does GPT-5.5 cover on BenchLM?

GPT-5.5 currently has 42 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 cover on BenchLM?

Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 currently has 19 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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