AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — Black Forest Labs
FLUX 3 Image is the image generation and editing model of Black Forest Labs’ FLUX 3 family, released on October 1, 2026. One endpoint generates or edits images, takes up to ten reference images and bounding-box layouts in the prompt, and outputs up to 4K (about 16 megapixels). Black Forest Labs also licenses the weights commercially for companies that run it on their own infrastructure.
Model B — Reflection AI
Beam is Reflection AI's first open-weight model, a 501B-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model with 23B active parameters, built for coding, reasoning and agentic work. Announced on October 5, 2026, its weights were released on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0; it takes and returns text only.
| Property | FLUX 3 Image | Beam 1.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Oct 1, 2026 | Oct 16, 2026 |
| Developer | Black Forest Labs | Reflection AI |
| Type | image | llm |
| License | proprietary | open-weight |
| Context window | — | 1,000,000 |
| Parameters | — | 501B total, 23B active (sparse mixture of experts) |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | — | — |
| Output $/M tokens | — | — |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
No shared capabilities
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