# LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse vs Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/longcat-flash-lite-sparse-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. LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse 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 MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 45.6% and 81.5%.
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Meituan | Reflection AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 17 | 19 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 21.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 45.6% | 81.5% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| BrowseComp | 48.6% | 76.7% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| 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 |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.2% | 80.2% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 40.6% | 65.9% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| SWE Multilingual | 59.3% | 78.1% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 33.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 43.0% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 78.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 48.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 85.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | 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
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CMMLU | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 69.5% | 90.3% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 36% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 89.8 (#28/148)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 80.7% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 87.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 95.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 65.7% | 98.0% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 40.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | 49.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse or Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8?

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

### How many benchmarks does LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse cover on BenchLM?

LongCat-Flash-Lite-Sparse currently has 17 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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