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Beam-1.0-501B-A23B
—Beam-1.0-501B-A23B is a code generation model with 501B parameters released by reflection. The model is registered under the text-generation pipeline tag on Hugging Face, and supports text->text inputs, distributed under the permissive apache-2.0 license.
Beam-1.0-501B-A23B is priced at $0.4/M input tokens and $1.2/M output tokens. Operationally the model offers a 1049K-token context window, which matters when sizing it for prompt-heavy or latency-sensitive workloads. At this input rate the model sits in the commodity tier and is suitable for high-volume workloads where per-call cost dominates the decision.
Beam-1.0-501B-A23B ships with 501B parameters. The published knowledge cutoff is 2026-06-30, so newer events will not be reflected in zero-shot answers without retrieval. Total weight footprint is approximately 501.3 GB, which is the relevant figure when planning local-inference VRAM. The apache-2.0 license is permissive, allowing commercial deployment and derivative work without per-seat fees, though attribution requirements still apply.
Beam-1.0-501B-A23B is best fit for code completion, repository-scale Q&A, and pair-programming integrations, high-volume batch jobs where per-call cost dominates the budget, and long-context tasks such as full-codebase analysis or book-length summarization (1049K tokens). It is a less obvious choice for one-shot generation of security-critical code without review. Treat this as a starting matrix rather than a benchmark verdict — the right deployment usually depends on the specific evaluation suite that mirrors your workload.
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