# Qwen3.8-27B vs Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.8-27B and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-8-27b-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. Qwen3.8-27B 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 59.6.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 82.2 for Qwen3.8-27B and 85.8 for Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 73.0% 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 | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Reflection AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 59.6 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 34 | 19 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 63.3 (Supported · #20/128)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 73.0% | 78.9% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| CoWorkBench | 70.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 33.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | 42.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | 64.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | 81.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 58.4% | 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
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 46.6 (Supported · #51/150)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 73.0% | 78.9% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 61.7% | 65.9% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| NL2Repo | 42.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 42.2% | 43.0% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 90.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 82.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 84.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 86.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Bug Hunt Bench | 15.0 fixes | Coming soon | 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: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 82.2 (#9/28)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 85.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | Coming soon | 17.4% | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 67.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 84.4 (#13/54)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MathVision | 90.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | 94.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | 65.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | 62.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 83.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 90.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 91.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | 85.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 65.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 51.2 (Supported · #76/184)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 89.2% | 90.3% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| HLE | 30.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 30.8% | 36% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 88.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 86.9 (#41/148)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 89.8 (#28/148)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 79.5% | 80.7% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 87.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 98.0% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Qwen3.8-27B or Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8?

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

### Where is the biggest gap between Qwen3.8-27B and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 82.2 for Qwen3.8-27B and 85.8 for Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.8-27B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8-27B currently has 34 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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