GPT-5 Mini vs Beam 1.0 501B A23B
Updated October 21, 2026. 25 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick GPT-5 Mini for coding: it scores 59.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 33.8 for Beam 1.0 501B A23B.
Pick Beam 1.0 501B A23B when output tokens cost 2.0x less, or when the context window is larger, 1.05M against 400K tokens.
- Shared results
- 25
- GPT-5 Mini only
- 73
- Beam 1.0 501B A23B only
- 3
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
GPT-5 Mini
GPT-5 Mini scores 59.8 against 33.8.
One benchmark behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only GPT-5 Mini has a AA Intelligence Index result, 20.6.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GPT-5 Mini has a GPQA Diamond result, 80.3%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only GPT-5 Mini has a AIME result, 91.5%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GPT-5 Mini has a MMLU Pro result, 82.2%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Beam 1.0 501B A23B
Beam 1.0 501B A23B leads, 1253 against 1125.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Beam 1.0 501B A23B
Beam 1.0 501B A23B takes 1.05M tokens against 400K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Beam 1.0 501B A23B
GPT-5 Mini $0.0013, Beam 1.0 501B A23B $0.0008 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only GPT-5 Mini has the number, $0.08.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- GPT-5 Mini 59.8 from 1 benchmark, Beam 1.0 501B A23B 33.8 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Math, 14.7 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: websites: GPT-5 Mini 1125 against Beam 1.0 501B A23B 1253, 16.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- GPT-5 Mini $2.00 against Beam 1.0 501B A23B $1.00 per million output tokens, 2.0x apart.
- Context window
- GPT-5 Mini takes 400K tokens, Beam 1.0 501B A23B 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | GPT-5 Mini | Bars | Beam 1.0 501B A23B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 2 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 3 | ||
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 3 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 2 | ||
| General | 0 | 12 | ||
| All shared boards | 1 | 24 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index02
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Beam 1.0 501B A23B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 59.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 39.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1437 | Only Beam 1.0 501B A23B measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 86.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 60.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 14.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 83.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| SciCode | 39.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 33.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 34.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| WeirdML | 52.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1406 | 1473 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1394 | 1461 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1443 | Only Beam 1.0 501B A23B measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1436 | Only Beam 1.0 501B A23B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Beam 1.0 501B A23B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 20.6 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.3 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Beam 1.0 501B A23B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 71.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | -$31 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 37 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Beam 1.0 501B A23B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 80.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 78.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 82.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 21.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 75.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| ARC-AGI | 54.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Chess puzzles | 24.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 10.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| VPCT | 40.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1380 | 1442 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1379 | 1447 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1383 | 1451 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1202 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1210 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Beam 1.0 501B A23B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 91.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 94.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 92.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| AA Math Index | 90.7 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 90.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 86.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 46.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 12.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| ProofBench | 9.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MATH level 5 | 97.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1378 | 1459 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1380 | 1475 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Beam 1.0 501B A23B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 82.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 81.8% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 68.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 60.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 75.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 66.9% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 96.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 43.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 83.7% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 21.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1371 | 1430 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1380 | 1376 | GPT-5 Mini |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1375 | 1433 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1358 | 1430 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Beam 1.0 501B A23B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1125 | 1253 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1106 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1130 | 1222 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1131 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1037 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1115 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1091 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1124 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index012
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Beam 1.0 501B A23B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 43.0% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 80.6% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| IFBench | 75.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 72.3% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| DTBench | 80.5% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMCA | 34.2% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 69.4% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 83.1% | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text | 1373 | 1425 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1357 | 1430 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1325 | 1390 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Vision | 1202 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1379 | 1436 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1363 | 1413 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1386 | 1424 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: German | 1366 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1341 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1308 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1386 | 1461 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1354 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1362 | 1412 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1378 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1363 | 1414 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1355 | 1429 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1344 | 1400 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1340 | 1399 | Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1216 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1214 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1199 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1205 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1217 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1226 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1181 | Not measured | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | GPT-5 Mini | Beam 1.0 501B A23B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Beam 1.0 501B A23B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Beam 1.0 501B A23B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Same cost
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | OpenAI GPT-5 Mini | Reflection Beam 1.0 501B A23B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Reflection |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | August 7, 2025 | October 16, 2026 |
| Context window | 400K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.25 | $0.30 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.00 | $1.00 |
| Coding index | 59.8 | 33.8 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.08 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is GPT-5 Mini better than Beam 1.0 501B A23B for coding?
Pick GPT-5 Mini for coding: it scores 59.8 on the Vibe Coding Index against 33.8 for Beam 1.0 501B A23B. Pick Beam 1.0 501B A23B when output tokens cost 2.0x less, or when the context window is larger, 1.05M against 400K tokens.
Which is cheaper, GPT-5 Mini or Beam 1.0 501B A23B?
GPT-5 Mini costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens; Beam 1.0 501B A23B costs $0.30 and $1.00. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5 Mini only.
Which has the bigger context window, GPT-5 Mini or Beam 1.0 501B A23B?
Beam 1.0 501B A23B, with 1.05M tokens against 400K.
How many benchmarks is the GPT-5 Mini vs Beam 1.0 501B A23B comparison based on?
25 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. GPT-5 Mini's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Beam 1.0 501B A23B's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.