Thinking Machines Lab apache_2_0 Released Jul 21, 2026 Updated
Inkling
ToolsGuide Scores, rankings, test results and price.
Model summary
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
Coding
#82 of 147 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
Agents
#49 of 53 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
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
- Inkling
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gpt-5.1-high -
qwen3.6-plus
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 / 120Fixing real bugs in real GitHub projects, checked by the projects' own tests.
77.6%
Self-reported
MMMU-Pro
#39 / 73College-level questions that need both an image and text to answer.
73.5%
Self-reported · In the vision score
CharXiv-R
#33 / 60Reading and reasoning about charts from scientific papers.
78.1%
Self-reported
Terminal-Bench 2.1
#34 / 46Terminal-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 / 44Instruction Following Benchmark evaluating model's ability to follow complex instructions
79.8%
Self-reported
MCP Atlas
#14 / 38MCP 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 / 26All 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 / 16A 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 / 14GDPval-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 / 14Text-only Humanity's Last Exam variant evaluated without tool use.
29.7%
Self-reported
Tau3 Banking
#4 / 13τ³-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 / 10Text-only Humanity's Last Exam variant evaluated with tool use enabled.
46.0%
Self-reported
MMAU
#2 / 5A 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 / 5SimpleQA 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 / 4AA-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 / 4VoiceBench 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