{"slug": "reflection-ai-s-beam-now-available-on-ai-gateway-for-free", "title": "Reflection AI's Beam now available on AI Gateway for free", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "[Beam from Reflection AI](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/beam), previously available in stealth as `stealth/cat-jam`, is now available on [AI Gateway](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway). Beam is free to use for a limited time during the launch period.\n\nBeam is an low latency US open-weight reasoning model for coding and agentic tasks, with [weights released under Apache 2.0](https://reflection.ai/blog/beam-is-available). Beam supports [tool calling](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/sdks-and-apis/responses/tool-calling) and [structured outputs](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/sdks-and-apis/openai-chat-completions/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.\n\nThere are 2 ways to access Beam for free:\n\nUsing the standard model name (`reflection/beam`). When the free period ends, the model slug will automatically transfer over to pricing with no downtime.\n\nUsing the `-free` suffix to the standard name (`reflection/beam-free`). The model will stop serving when the free offer ends.\n\nTo use it in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more, install the latest Vercel CLI and run setup:\n\nThen select `reflection/beam` or `reflection/beam-free` in the agent. See the [coding agents guide](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/coding-agents) for details.\n\nTry Beam in the [model playground](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/beam).\n\nAI 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](https://vercel.com/changelog/custom-reporting-ai-gateway), [Zero Data Retention support](https://vercel.com/blog/zdr-on-ai-gateway), [budgets for API keys](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok/api-keys), [routing rules](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/models-and-providers/routing-rules), and more.\n\nAI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on [Bring Your Own Key](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok/byok) (BYOK) requests.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reflection-ai-s-beam-now-available-on-ai-gateway-for-free", "canonical_source": "https://vercel.com/changelog/reflection-ai-beam-now-available-on-ai-gateway-for-free", "published_at": "2026-10-16 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-16 17:24:13.771604+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Reflection AI", "Beam", "Vercel", "AI Gateway", "Claude Code", "Codex", "Cursor", "Vercel CLI"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reflection-ai-s-beam-now-available-on-ai-gateway-for-free", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reflection-ai-s-beam-now-available-on-ai-gateway-for-free.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reflection-ai-s-beam-now-available-on-ai-gateway-for-free.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/reflection-ai-s-beam-now-available-on-ai-gateway-for-free.jsonld"}}