Reflection AI's Beam 1.0 Scores 23.5% on ARC-AGI-2 Verified
Cost per task is the notable figure: high reasoning trades just 3.5 points on ARC-AGI-2 for 43% savings, which matters for teams budgeting reasoning workloads. Researchers comparing frontier abstract-reasoning scores against models like GPT-5 or Gemini can pull the verified ARC Prize entry directly. The ARC-AGI-1 versus ARC-AGI-2 gap also offers a data point on how quickly reasoning models are closing the abstraction gap.
Beam 1.0 from Reflection AI posted 23.5% on ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) at US$0.61 per task, and 74.0% on ARC-AGI-1 at US$0.31 per task. Its best results came at the xhigh reasoning setting. The high setting scored 20.0% on ARC-AGI-2, close behind at roughly 43% lower cost. The numbers were published on 2 Jul 2026 by ARC Prize.
Beam 1.0 from @reflection_ai on ARC-AGI (Verified):
- ARC-AGI-2: 23.5%, $0.61/task - ARC-AGI-1: 74.0%, $0.31/task
Beam’s best scores came at xhigh reasoning, but high was close on ARC-AGI-2: 20.0% versus 23.5%, at about 43% lower cost. https://t.co/Et3fnkAPaw