# Qwen3.8-27B vs Beam

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-reflection-beam
- Last updated: October 5, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8-27B 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

- Qwen3.8-27B leads overall 58.21 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 73.0% and 80.1%.
- Beam is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.8-27B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Reflection AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Pending |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | null |
| Overall Score | 58.21 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 33 | 16 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 61.4 (Supported · #18/119)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 73.0% | 80.1% | Beam |
| 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 |
| 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
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 48.1 (Supported · #46/144)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 73.0% | 80.1% | Beam |
| SWE-bench Pro | 61.7% | 65.5% | Beam |
| NL2Repo | 42.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 42.2% | 44.4% | Beam |
| 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 |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 34.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 80.9% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 49.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 78.7 (#8/27)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 65.5% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 80.9 (#11/49)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam | 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: 49.7 (Supported · #65/171)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 89.2% | 90.5% | Beam |
| HLE | 30.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 30.8% | 36.2% | Beam |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 88.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 84.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: 82.5 (#49/125)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 79.5% | 79.7% | Beam |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8-27B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8-27B | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 97.8% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Qwen3.8-27B or Beam?

Qwen3.8-27B is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

Qwen3.8-27B currently has 33 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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