# MiniCPM5-2B vs Beam

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MiniCPM5-2B and Beam across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/minicpm5-2b-vs-reflection-beam
- Last updated: October 5, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 9
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick MiniCPM5-2B 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

- MiniCPM5-2B leads overall 45 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 8.6% and 80.1%.
- Beam is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- MiniCPM5-2B also has the larger context window at 131K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MiniCPM5-2B | Beam |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | OpenBMB | Reflection AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Pending |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 131K | null |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 19 | 16 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v4 | 66.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 8.6% | 80.1% | Beam |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 78.7% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 77.4% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 69.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 26.3% | 49.7% | Beam |
| SWE-bench Verified | 46.4% | 80.9% | Beam |
| SWE-bench Pro | 14.4% | 65.5% | Beam |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 8.6% | 80.1% | Beam |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 44.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 34.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 43.7% | 65.5% | Beam |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-Pro | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 8.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 70.2% | 90.5% | Beam |
| SuperGPQA | 40.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 36.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 66.3% | 79.7% | Beam |
| IFEval | 86.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- MiniCPM5-2B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | MiniCPM5-2B | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 86.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 86.5% | 97.8% | Beam |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 63.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MATH-500 | 94.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MiniCPM5-2B or Beam?

MiniCPM5-2B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does MiniCPM5-2B cover on BenchLM?

MiniCPM5-2B currently has 19 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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

Beam currently has 16 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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## Explore More

- [MiniCPM5-2B profile](/models/minicpm5-2b)
- [Beam profile](/models/reflection-beam)
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- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)