Beam 1.0 501B-A23B vs Inkling Small
Beam 1.0 501B-A23B scores higher on the intelligence index, 30 against 26. None of the 37 machines here still sold at a published price runs Beam 1.0 501B-A23B at 32k of context. Inkling Small runs on the Mac Studio M5 Ultra, 256GB, from $10,799. At 500k tokens a day that machine pays for itself in 124 years running Inkling Small.
| Beam 1.0 501B-A23B | Inkling Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence index | 30 | 26 |
| Class | Sonnet-class | Haiku-class |
| Weights | 307 GB | 163 GB |
| Needs at 32k | 308 GB | 164 GB |
| Quantisation | UD-Q4_K_XL | UD-Q4_K_M |
| Parameters | 501.3B (23.4B active) | 266B (12B active) |
| Max context | 1M | 1M |
| API price per 1M | $0.25 in / $1 out | $0.45 in / $1.2 out |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Machines here that run it | 0 of 37 | 1 of 37 |
| Cheapest machine that runs it | none listed | Mac Studio M5 Ultra, 256GB $10,799 |
Run Beam 1.0 501B-A23B in the calculator · or Inkling Small on the Mac Studio M5 Ultra, 256GB
Machines that run one and not the other
Inkling Small needs 164 GB of memory at 32k of context and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B needs 308 GB. That puts Inkling Small on 1 of the 37 machines priced here that Beam 1.0 501B-A23B does not, starting at $10,799.
| Machine | Price | Memory | Speed on Inkling Small | Pay-back |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac Studio M5 Ultra, 256GB | $10,799 | 256 GB | 43 tok/s estimated | Pays back in 124 years |
Beam 1.0 501B-A23B is also head to head with Qwen3.8 27B above it on the leaderboard. Inkling Small is also head to head with Tencent Hy3 below it on the leaderboard. One more model needs much the same memory: DeepSeek V4-Flash.
The assumptions behind both columns
Both columns use the same usage: 500k tokens a day at 15:1 input to output, 32k of context, $0.17 per kWh, and today's API prices held flat. Speeds marked estimated are worked out from memory bandwidth rather than measured, and pay-back scales with them. Where nobody rents an open model by the token, its API prices are the nearest hosted model's, named beside them. Machines are the 37 here with a published price that are still sold. Change any of it in the calculator.
More head to head: what Beam 1.0 501B-A23B needs · every machine that runs Inkling Small · every other match-up · both against the frontier · the quickest pay-back at each level of use