cd /news/large-language-models/reflection-ai-s-beam-now-available-o… · home › topics › large-language-models › article
[ARTICLE · art-151511] src=vercel.com ↗ pub= topic=large-language-models verified=true sentiment=↑ positive

Reflection AI's Beam now available on AI Gateway for free

Reflection AI's Beam, a low-latency US open-weight reasoning model for coding and agentic tasks, is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway and free to use for a limited launch period. Beam activates only 23B of its 501B parameters per token, supports tool calling and structured outputs, and offers a 1M-token context window with adjustable reasoning effort, with weights released under Apache 2.0. Developers can access it as reflection/beam, which transfers to paid pricing after the free period, or reflection/beam-free, which stops serving when the offer ends.

by read1 min views4 publishedOct 16, 2026

Beam from Reflection AI, previously available in stealth as stealth/cat-jam, is now available on AI Gateway. Beam is free to use for a limited time during the launch period.

Beam is an low latency US open-weight reasoning model for coding and agentic tasks, with weights released under Apache 2.0. Beam supports tool calling and structured outputs, with a 1M-token context window for code, documents, and conversation history. Reasoning effort is adjustable. Beam is designed for speed, activating only 23B of its 501B parameters per token and avoiding tokens a task doesn't need, so it tends to reach answers sooner than larger open models.

There are 2 ways to access Beam for free:

Using the standard model name (`reflection/beam`). When the free period ends, the model slug will automatically transfer over to pricing with no downtime.

Using the `-free` suffix to the standard name (`reflection/beam-free`). The model will stop serving when the free offer ends.

To use it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more, install the latest Vercel CLI and run setup:

Then select reflection/beam or reflection/beam-free in the agent. See the coding agents guide for details.

Try Beam in the model playground. AI Gateway provides a unified API for calling models, tracking usage and cost, and configuring retries, failover, and performance optimizations for higher-than-provider uptime. It includes built-in custom reporting, Zero Data Retention support, budgets for API keys, routing rules, and more.

AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) requests.

── more in #large-language-models 4 stories · sorted by recency
── more on @reflection ai 3 stories trending now
sponsored brought to you by zahid.host 4,200+ EU-deployed projects
reading about agents? ship yours in a single git push.

Run your AI side-project on zahid.host

EU-based hosting, git-push deploys, automatic HTTPS, no cold starts. Free tier with a custom domain — perfect for shipping the agent you just read about.

$git push zahid main
→ Live at https://your-agent.zahid.host ✓
Get free account → Pricing
from €0/mo · no card required
LIVE [news/reflection-ai-s-beam…] indexed:0 read:1min 2026-10-16 · —