# Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 vs Step 3.5 Flash

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 and Step 3.5 Flash across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/reflection-beam-nvfp4-vs-step-3-5-flash
- Last updated: October 16, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 and Step 3.5 Flash share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 has the lower published output-token price.
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Step 3.5 Flash |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Reflection AI | StepFun |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 42.11 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 19 | 3 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.10 / $0.30 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Step 3.5 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Step 3.5 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 35.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 51.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 80.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 75.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 81.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Step 3.5 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Step 3.5 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 42.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 65.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | 31.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 77.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.7% | 74.4% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 |
| SciCode | 46.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 86.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: 85.5 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Step 3.5 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Step 3.5 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | 15.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | 67.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Step 3.5 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Step 3.5 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 89.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 34.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: 86.2 (#44/148)
- Step 3.5 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Step 3.5 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: 87.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Step 3.5 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Step 3.5 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 97.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 97.3% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 and Step 3.5 Flash?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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