# K-EXAONE 2.0 vs Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for K-EXAONE 2.0 and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/k-exaone-2-0-vs-reflection-beam-fp8
- Last updated: October 16, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. K-EXAONE 2.0 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 FP8 leads overall 71 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 43.8% and 78.9%.
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LG AI Research | Reflection AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 15 | 19 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 43.8% | 78.9% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| Claw-Eval | 77.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 36.8% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 51.1% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 81.5% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 76.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 37.4% | 48.3% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.2% | 80.2% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 43.8% | 78.9% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 43.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 65.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78.1% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 85.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | Coming soon | 17.4% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 67.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 83.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 82.2% | 90.3% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| HLE | 18.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 36% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| PolyMath | 71.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 89.8 (#28/148)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 72.6% | 80.7% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- K-EXAONE 2.0 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 87.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | K-EXAONE 2.0 | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 92.3% | 98.0% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | 78.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, K-EXAONE 2.0 or Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8?

Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does K-EXAONE 2.0 cover on BenchLM?

K-EXAONE 2.0 currently has 15 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 cover on BenchLM?

Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 currently has 19 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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