# Beam vs ZAYA1-8B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Beam and ZAYA1-8B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/reflection-beam-vs-zaya1-8b
- Last updated: October 5, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Beam and ZAYA1-8B share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- ZAYA1-8B has the lower published output-token price.
- ZAYA1-8B has the larger published context window at 131K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Beam | ZAYA1-8B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Reflection AI | Zyphra |
| Type | Pending | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | null | 131K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 31.53 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 16 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Beam | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 78.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 80.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 39.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Beam | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 44.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 65.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 80.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | 34.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 78% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 49.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 65.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Beam | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 65.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 33.9 (Estimated · #121/171)

| Benchmark | Beam | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 90.5% | 71.0% | Beam |
| HLE w/o tools | 36.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 71% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 22.8 (#122/125)

| Benchmark | Beam | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 79.7% | 52.6% | Beam |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon
- ZAYA1-8B public-lane score: 61.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Beam | ZAYA1-8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 97.8% | 89.1% | Beam |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 71.6% | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 59.3% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Beam and ZAYA1-8B?

Not yet. The models share only 3 sourced benchmark rows, 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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