What changed

Reflection offers multiple weight formats, agent integrations and hosted access.

Source: Reflection Beam availability announcement

Our analysis

Builder’s view: compare hosted and self-hosted runs on the same tasks, recording peak memory, elapsed time and accepted results before choosing a deployment route.

Keep in mind

Its first-party API is in public beta; performance claims are vendor-reported.

Source: Reflection Beam availability announcement

Sources & dates

Article updated: 16 Oct 2026

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