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Reflection: Beam 1.0 501B A23B

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Beam 1.0 501B A23B is a reasoning model from Reflection released on Oct 5, 2026. It reads text and writes text, with a 1.05M token context window and up to 131K tokens per reply.

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It costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens. Cached input bills at $0.25, 0% less than fresh input.

It supports tool calling, structured JSON output and prompt caching, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.

10 providers serve it, including Nebius Token Factory, Together AI and Vercel AI Gateway.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.25 / $1 per 1M
Context
1.05M
Max output
131K
Released
Oct 5, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
Jun 2026
  • Tool calling
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Prompt caching
  • Open weights
  • Free to use

Beam 1.0 501B A23B pricing

USD, as listed on Oct 22, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.

Input$0.25 / 1M tokens
Output$1 / 1M tokens
Cached input (read)$0.25 / 1M tokens

Beam 1.0 501B A23B providers

10 providers serve it, including Nebius Token Factory, Together AI and Vercel AI Gateway. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.

ProviderInput /MOutput /MCache read /MContextMax output
Reflection First party$0$0$01.05M131K
Nebius Token Factory$0.25$1$0.251.05M131K
Together AI$0.40$1.20$0.041.05M131K
Vercel AI Gatewayn/an/an/a1.05M131K
Kilo Gateway$0.25$1$0.051.05M944K
CoreWeave$0.30$1$0.041.05M1.05M
Eden AI$0.40$1.20$0.041.05M131K
NanoGPT$0.50$1.50$0.051.05M131K
Cloudflare AI Gatewayn/an/an/a262K131K
Ollama Cloudn/an/an/a1.05M131K

What Beam 1.0 501B A23B costs per month

Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.

Beam 1.0 501B A23B per month
$29.25
Without caching
$29.25
Per request
$0.001

Supported request parameters

What you can set when you call Beam 1.0 501B A23B through an OpenAI compatible API.

  • Toolstools
  • Structured outputsstructured_outputs
  • Reasoningreasoning
  • Temperaturetemperature

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Beam 1.0 501B A23B questions

How much does the Beam 1.0 501B A23B API cost?

$0.25 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.25. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.

What is the context window of Beam 1.0 501B A23B?

1,048,576 tokens of input, and it can write up to 131,072 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.

Which providers serve Beam 1.0 501B A23B?

10 providers serve it, including Nebius Token Factory, Together AI and Vercel AI Gateway. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.

Does Beam 1.0 501B A23B support tool calling?

Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.

Is Beam 1.0 501B A23B open source?

Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.

When was Beam 1.0 501B A23B released?

Oct 5, 2026, with training data up to Jun 2026.

Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 22, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.