Beam vs Freestyle

Sandbox Benchmark Comparison · Updated November 6, 2026

Beam was faster in the only sandbox benchmark with a speed verdict.

Head to head

  • Burst TTITime to interactive · lower is better
    Beam faster3.76x
    Beam
    534ms
    Freestyle
    2.01s
  • DAXTotal workload time · lower is better
    No verdict
    Beam
    96.13s
    Freestyle
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Burst TTI

November 6, 2026

Beam

100% success
Median
534ms
p95
769ms
p99
774ms
Beam Burst TTI results

Freestyle

100% success
Median
2.01s
p95
2.41s
p99
2.46s
Freestyle Burst TTI results

Median time to interactive over time

13 runs · September 4, 2026 to November 6, 2026
BeamFreestyle

DAX

October 30, 2026

Beam

100% success
Median
96.13s
Beam DAX results

Freestyle

0% success

No measured time in this run.

Freestyle DAX results
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Methodology

  • One workload, every provider. The same script, payload, and model hit every provider, addressed the way its own API expects. Nobody gets a tuned or special path.
  • Repeated on a schedule. Every suite runs many iterations per provider, automated on a recurring schedule, so results reflect steady state rather than one lucky request.
  • Raw results published. Every run is committed as JSON to the public benchmarks repo, next to the code that produced it. Nothing is cherry-picked or held back.
  • How this comparison is built. Each benchmark compares the two providers' medians; results within 5% count as roughly even. A comparison is published when both providers have at least one successful run in the same benchmark from the last 30 days. A benchmark only gets a verdict when both providers completed at least 50% of its runs. If a provider’s latest run of a benchmark failed, its most recent successful run from that window is used instead.

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Beam was faster in the only sandbox benchmark with a speed verdict. In Burst TTI (November 6, 2026), Beam had a median time to interactive of 534ms versus 2.01s for Freestyle, 3.76x faster.

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