Released 2026-10-16. 501B/23B-active MoE, Apache 2.0 open weights (HF reflection/Beam-1.0-501B-A23B); text-only with a 1M context per the card, OpenRouter and Vercel.
FTI15–20
7 sources, 1 independent of the vendor: centre 18; the sources disagree widely, so shown as a band.
Beam 1.0 is on OpenCode Zen's free model list as opencode/beam-free: first seen by the daily free-catalogue check at 2026-10-20T08:00Z; we have not called it
Beam 1.0 is on OpenCode Go's free model list as opencode-go/beam-free: first seen by the daily free-catalogue check at 2026-10-20T08:00Z; we have not called it
Beam 1.0 is on the Vercel AI Gateway free list as reflection/beam-free, shown as "Beam 1.0 (Free)": first seen by the daily free-catalogue check at 2026-10-20T08:00Z; we have not called it
$0 · accountVercel account; free models plus $5/month gateway credit per team; a payment method may be required before use ("customer_verification_required")
$0 · no account":free" models answered in the Kilo CLI without signing in (our test, Oct 6); other models need a Kilo account; non-":free" models answer 401 without sign-in (PAID_MODEL_AUTH_REQUIRED, seen 2026-10-16)