# LFM2.5-230M vs Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for LFM2.5-230M and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/lfm2-5-230m-vs-reflection-beam-fp8
- Last updated: October 16, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: LFM2.5-230M and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 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 FP8 has the lower published output-token price.
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LFM2.5-230M | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | LiquidAI | Reflection AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 32K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 19 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-230M | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 21.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 36.8% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 51.1% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 78.9% | 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: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-230M | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 43.0% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 65.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 78.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 48.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 85.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-230M | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | Coming soon | 17.4% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 67.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-230M | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 25.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 25.4% | 90.3% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| MMLU-Pro | 20.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 36% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: 9.7 (#143/148)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 89.8 (#28/148)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-230M | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 71.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 38.4% | 80.7% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- LFM2.5-230M public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 87.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | LFM2.5-230M | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 98.0% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between LFM2.5-230M and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8?

Not yet. The models share only 2 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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