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

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Qwen3.8 Max 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-max-vs-reflection-beam-fp8
- Last updated: October 16, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 9
- 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 Max 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 69.65.
- The clearest category separation is in mathematics, where the averages are 78.9 for Qwen3.8 Max and 87.9 for Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is DeepSWE in Coding, with scores of 56.6% and 43.0%.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Qwen3.8 Max | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Alibaba | Reflection AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 69.65 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 66 | 19 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 67.5 (Supported · #14/128)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 86.6% | 78.9% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| CoWorkBench | 74.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | 70.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | 52.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | 27.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 81.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 56.2% | 51.1% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| OSWorld-Verified | 86.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 19.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | 66.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | 85.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MobileWorld | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 67.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Hermes Index | 36.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Hermes Bench | 70.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MazeBench | 0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 36.8% | 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 Max public-lane score: 53.6 (Supported · #34/150)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 86.6% | 78.9% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| SWE-bench Pro | 67.7% | 65.9% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| DeepSWE | 56.6% | 43.0% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| NL2Repo | 55.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLS-Bench Lite | 41.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PaperBench | 93.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 81.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 15.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 87.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Bug Hunt Bench | 25.7 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 Max public-lane score: 87.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 85.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | 92.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | 66.3% | 67.6% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 17.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 91.2 (#4/54)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 82.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 95.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | 97.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | 82.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | 91.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 24.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | 49.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 84.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vision2Web | 69.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 88.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 93.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | 74.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | 79.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | 88.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ERQA | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 75.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | 63.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 90.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 88.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 82.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 90.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LVBench | 81.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 68.1 (Supported · #24/184)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 92.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 92.6% | 90.3% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| HLE | 43.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 43.6% | 36% | Qwen3.8 Max |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Qwen3.8 Max
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 94.7 (#2/148)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 89.8 (#28/148)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 82.8% | 80.7% | Qwen3.8 Max |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Qwen3.8 Max public-lane score: 78.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 public-lane score: 87.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Qwen3.8 Max | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 74.737% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 46.341% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 98.0% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

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

The widest category gap is in mathematics, where the averages are 78.9 for Qwen3.8 Max and 87.9 for Beam 1.0 501B-A23B FP8.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.8 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8 Max currently has 66 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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