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Thinking Machines Lab apache_2_0 Released Jul 21, 2026 Updated

Inkling

ToolsGuide Scores, rankings, test results and price.

Model summary

  • Text #74 / 416

    426 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes 390, tests 466

  • Coding #82 / 147

    299 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes 293, tests 304

  • Agents #49 / 53

    373 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes 367, tests 376

  • Price per 1M tokens

    In $0.95· Out $4.05

    $0.95

    Input · median text model $0.43

Summary

Inkling is Thinking Machines Lab's model, released Jul 21, 2026. It's ranked in 3 categories and does best at text: #74 of 416, with a ToolsGuide Score of 426 against a median of 235.

It also ranks #82 of 147 for coding (299), #49 of 53 for agents (373).

It costs $0.95 per million input tokens and $4.05 per million output tokens, about 2.2× the median text model ($0.43).

It has published results on 16 tests.

Specifications

Creator
Thinking Machines Lab
Licence
apache_2_0
Released
Jul 21, 2026
Context window
524K tokens
Input price
$0.95 / 1M
Output price
$4.05 / 1M
Tests reported
16
Settings ranked
inkling, Inkling

Model comparison

Against the ten best text models.

Text score

ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better

Coding score

ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better

Input price

USD per 1M input tokens · Lower is better

Leaderboards

Where Inkling sits among the top 20 in each category.

Text

#74 of 416 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

Full text leaderboard →

Coding

#82 of 147 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

Full coding leaderboard →

Agents

#49 of 53 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

Full agents leaderboard →

By task

Scored from votes on each kind of prompt alone, on the same 1,000-point scale.

Score against price

Text · the 10 priced models ranked closest · up and to the left is better value

Against its nearest rivals

Text prompts by kind · ToolsGuide Score from votes · hover for values

Text

inkling · hover a bar for its rank

Coding

Inkling · hover a bar for its rank

Test results

Every test Inkling has a published result on, out of 100%, with its rank among the models that took it.

  • SWE-Bench Verified

    #27 / 120

    Fixing real bugs in real GitHub projects, checked by the projects' own tests.

    77.6%

    Self-reported

  • MMMU-Pro

    #39 / 73

    College-level questions that need both an image and text to answer.

    73.5%

    Self-reported · In the vision score

  • CharXiv-R

    #33 / 60

    Reading and reasoning about charts from scientific papers.

    78.1%

    Self-reported

  • Terminal-Bench 2.1

    #34 / 46

    Terminal-Bench 2.1 is an updated release of the Terminal-Bench benchmark that tests AI agents' ability to operate a computer via the terminal. It evaluates how well models handle real-world, end-to-end tasks autonomously, including compiling code, training models, setting up servers, system administration, data science workflows, and security tasks.

    63.8%

    Self-reported

  • IFBench

    #8 / 44

    Instruction Following Benchmark evaluating model's ability to follow complex instructions

    79.8%

    Self-reported

  • MCP Atlas

    #14 / 38

    MCP Atlas is a benchmark for evaluating AI models on scaled tool use capabilities, measuring how well models can coordinate and utilize multiple tools across complex multi-step tasks.

    76.0%

    Self-reported

  • AIME 2026

    #2 / 26

    All 30 problems from the 2026 American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME I and AIME II), testing olympiad-level mathematical reasoning with integer answers from 000-999. Used as an AI benchmark to evaluate large language models' ability to solve complex mathematical problems requiring multi-step logical deductions and structured symbolic reasoning.

    97.1%

    Self-reported

  • Global-MMLU-Lite

    #2 / 16

    A lightweight version of Global MMLU benchmark that evaluates language models across multiple languages while addressing cultural and linguistic biases in multilingual evaluation.

    88.7%

    Self-reported

  • GDPval-AA

    #11 / 14

    GDPval-AA evaluates AI agents on economically valuable professional knowledge-work tasks and reports performance as an Elo score.

    41.3%

    Self-reported

  • Humanity's Last Exam (no tools, text-only)

    #12 / 14

    Text-only Humanity's Last Exam variant evaluated without tool use.

    29.7%

    Self-reported

  • Tau3 Banking

    #4 / 13

    τ³-Bench banking domain evaluates agentic models on multi-turn, tool-using customer-support scenarios in a simulated retail banking environment.

    23.7%

    Self-reported

  • Humanity's Last Exam (with tools, text-only)

    #9 / 10

    Text-only Humanity's Last Exam variant evaluated with tool use enabled.

    46.0%

    Self-reported

  • MMAU

    #2 / 5

    A massive multi-task audio understanding and reasoning benchmark comprising 10,000 carefully curated audio clips paired with human-annotated natural language questions spanning speech, environmental sounds, and music. Requires expert-level knowledge and complex reasoning across 27 distinct skills.

    77.2%

    Self-reported

  • SimpleQA Verified

    #2 / 5

    SimpleQA Verified is a curated, reliability-focused subset of SimpleQA that addresses label noise and redundancy in the original benchmark, measuring short-form parametric factual accuracy of large language models on fact-seeking questions with single, indisputable answers.

    43.9%

    Self-reported

  • AA-Omniscience Index

    #3 / 4

    AA-Omniscience Index is Artificial Analysis's knowledge-reliability metric. It rewards correct answers, penalizes hallucinations, and does not penalize abstention. Scores range from -100 to 100, where 0 means as many correct as incorrect answers.

    1.1%

    Self-reported

  • VoiceBench Avg

    #2 / 4

    VoiceBench is the first benchmark designed to provide a multi-faceted evaluation of LLM-based voice assistants, evaluating capabilities including general knowledge, instruction-following, reasoning, and safety using both synthetic and real spoken instruction data with diverse speaker characteristics and environmental conditions.

    91.4%

    Self-reported