Beam 1.0 501B A23B vs GLM 5.3 Flash

Overall
57
vs
Overall
35

Beam 1.0 501B A23B is clearly better. It wins 56 of the 76 test cases where they differ.

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Task by task

A score turns orange only when that model wins clearly more of the task's test cases. Under each score, the average time per test case on the machine it ran on. Beam 1.0 501B A23B spends 1.4× as many thinking tokens per test case.

Thinking tokensAnswer tokens
TaskAB
Overall
5717.2s
4K, 87% thinking2.8K, 89% thinking
3555.5s
Agents
5521.8s
4.8K, 90% thinking607, 81% thinking
1037.0s
Structured Extraction
819.98s
3.4K, 91% thinking2.7K, 93% thinking
4847.2s
Coding
4819.9s
4.5K, 70% thinking5.3K, 83% thinking
541m 52s
Grounded Answers
6911.6s
2.7K, 88% thinking2.9K, 93% thinking
3756.8s
Instruction Following
7820.9s
5.6K, 90% thinking2K, 77% thinking
4340.8s
Business Logic
5714.0s
4.2K, 95% thinking5.8K, 98% thinking
331m 18s
Security & permissions
5120.6s
3.2K, 88% thinking963, 81% thinking
5525.2s
Diagnosis & investigation
1724.3s
3.1K, 90% thinking563, 63% thinking
027.0s

What you'd run

The build behind each score. Orange marks the faster, smaller, cheaper or longer-context side.

SpecAB
Speed
274 tok/s (better)
60 tok/s
Machine
Hosted
Hosted
Memory at 32K
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Context
1M
1M
Cost per run
$0.83
$0.19 (better)
Cost per case
$0.0054
$0.0013 (better)
Time per case
17.2s (better)
55.5s
Quantization
FP8
FP8
Harness
openrouter
openrouter

The race

No lead changes

Each model's running score as the test cases go by. The dashed line is a perfect run.

Beam 1.0 501B A23BGLM 5.3 Flash
025507510050100150Perfect run5735

Every test case

153 test cases

Each square is one test case, colored by the model that scored higher.

56 won by Beam 1.0 501B A23B20 won by GLM 5.3 Flash77 tied