Compare AI models: Beam 1.0 501B A23B vs Step 5 Preview

ReasoningCodingCost efficiencyContext windowMultimodalTool use

Normalized model capability scores
Model	Reasoning	Coding	Cost efficiency	Context window	Multimodal	Tool use
Beam 1.0 501B A23B	50/100	88/100	61/100	93/100	0/100	50/100 — Tool calling supported; no comparable benchmark
Step 5 Preview	50/100 — Reasoning supported; no comparable benchmark	50/100 — No data; neutral placeholder	38/100	82/100	50/100	50/100 — Tool calling supported; no comparable benchmark

Overview

Author

Context length

Reasoning

True

Input modalities

Text

Text, Image, Video

Output modalities

Text

Providers

Pricing

Input

$0.30/ 1M

$1.06/ 1M

Output

$1.00/ 1M

$2.86/ 1M

Cached input

$0.04/ 1M

$0.05/ 1M

MomentumLast 2 mo

Unique users

127K

114K

Completed sessions

3,127,904

2,630,706

Token share

0.58%

0.63%

Tokens

6.6T+100%

7.2T+100%

AUG 29OCT 23

RetentionWeek 1

Returning users

Pending

77.1%933 user-weeks

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