Thinking Machines Lab apache_2_0 Released Jul 30, 2026 Updated
Inkling-Small
ToolsGuide Scores, rankings, test results and price.
Model summary
- Text #101 / 416
374 / 1,000
ToolsGuide Score· votes 301, tests 476
- Vision #74 / 167
394 / 1,000
ToolsGuide Score· votes 342, tests 458
- Coding #81 / 147
303 / 1,000
ToolsGuide Score· votes 290, tests 313
- Agents #50 / 53
372 / 1,000
ToolsGuide Score· votes 361, tests 377
- Price per 1M tokens
In $0.30· Out $1.20
$0.30
Input · median text model $0.43
Summary
Inkling-Small is Thinking Machines Lab's model, released Jul 30, 2026. It's ranked in 4 categories and does best at text: #101 of 416, with a ToolsGuide Score of 374 against a median of 235.
It also ranks #74 of 167 for vision (394), #81 of 147 for coding (303), #50 of 53 for agents (372).
It costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, below the median text model ($0.43).
It has published results on 24 tests.
Specifications
- Creator
- Thinking Machines Lab
- Licence
- apache_2_0
- Released
- Jul 30, 2026
- Context window
- 524K tokens
- Input price
- $0.30 / 1M
- Output price
- $1.20 / 1M
- Tests reported
- 24
- Settings ranked
- Inkling Small, Inkling-Small
Model comparison
Against the ten best text models.
Text score
ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better
Vision score
ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better
Input price
USD per 1M input tokens · Lower is better
Leaderboards
Where Inkling-Small sits among the top 20 in each category.
Text
#101 of 416 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
Vision
#74 of 167 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
Coding
#81 of 147 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
Agents
#50 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-Small
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gemma-4-31b
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mimo-v2.5
Text
Inkling Small · hover a bar for its rank
Vision
Inkling-Small · hover a bar for its rank
Coding
Inkling-Small · hover a bar for its rank
Test results
Every test Inkling-Small has a published result on, out of 100%, with its rank among the models that took it.
GPQA
#32 / 256Graduate-level science questions written to be hard to look up.
89.5%
Self-reported
SWE-Bench Verified
#13 / 120Fixing real bugs in real GitHub projects, checked by the projects' own tests.
80.2%
Self-reported
Humanity's Last Exam
#53 / 108Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) is a multi-modal academic benchmark with 2,500 questions across mathematics, humanities, and natural sciences, designed to test LLM capabilities at the frontier of human knowledge with unambiguous, verifiable solutions
31.6%
Self-reported · In the text score· In the vision score
MMMU-Pro
#36 / 73College-level questions that need both an image and text to answer.
74.0%
Self-reported · In the vision score
BrowseComp
#25 / 68Finding hard-to-locate facts by browsing the web.
77.4%
Self-reported · In the agents score
SWE-Bench Pro
#40 / 61Harder, longer software engineering tasks from real codebases.
55.9%
Self-reported · In the coding score
CharXiv-R
#37 / 60Reading and reasoning about charts from scientific papers.
77.4%
Self-reported
Terminal-Bench 2.1
#33 / 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.
64.7%
Self-reported
IFBench
#2 / 44Instruction Following Benchmark evaluating model's ability to follow complex instructions
82.2%
Self-reported
Toolathlon
#16 / 42Tool Decathlon is a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating AI agents' ability to use multiple tools across diverse task categories. It measures proficiency in tool selection, sequencing, and execution across ten different tool-use scenarios.
54.4%
Self-reported · In the agents score
MCP Atlas
#9 / 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.
79.6%
Self-reported
SciCode
#9 / 30SciCode is a research coding benchmark curated by scientists that challenges language models to code solutions for scientific problems. It contains 338 subproblems decomposed from 80 challenging main problems across 16 natural science sub-fields including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. Problems require knowledge recall, reasoning, and code synthesis skills.
48.7%
Self-reported
AIME 2026
#5 / 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.
95.5%
Self-reported
ARC-AGI v2
#11 / 19ARC-AGI-2 is an upgraded benchmark for measuring abstract reasoning and problem-solving abilities in AI systems through visual grid transformation tasks. It evaluates fluid intelligence via input-output grid pairs (1x1 to 30x30) using colored cells (0-9), requiring models to identify underlying transformation rules from demonstration examples and apply them to test cases. Designed to be easy for humans but challenging for AI, focusing on core cognitive abilities like spatial reasoning, pattern recognition, and compositional generalization.
40.1%
Self-reported · In the text score· In the vision score
Global-MMLU-Lite
#5 / 16A lightweight version of Global MMLU benchmark that evaluates language models across multiple languages while addressing cultural and linguistic biases in multilingual evaluation.
86.7%
Self-reported
GDPval-AA
#10 / 14GDPval-AA evaluates AI agents on economically valuable professional knowledge-work tasks and reports performance as an Elo score.
42.3%
Self-reported
Artificial Analysis
#12 / 13Artificial Analysis benchmark evaluates AI models across quality, speed, and pricing dimensions, providing a composite assessment of model capabilities for real-world usage.
40.0%
Self-reported
Tau3 Banking
#9 / 13τ³-Bench banking domain evaluates agentic models on multi-turn, tool-using customer-support scenarios in a simulated retail banking environment.
15.5%
Self-reported
ARC-AGI
#7 / 11The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence (ARC-AGI) is a benchmark designed to test general intelligence and abstract reasoning capabilities through visual grid-based transformation tasks. Each task consists of 2-5 demonstration pairs showing input grids transformed into output grids according to underlying rules, with test-takers required to infer these rules and apply them to novel test inputs. The benchmark uses colored grids (up to 30x30) with 10 discrete colors/symbols, designed to measure human-like general fluid intelligence and skill-acquisition efficiency with minimal prior knowledge.
84.0%
Self-reported
CritPT
#4 / 6CritPT is a challenging reasoning benchmark reported by Qwen for evaluating frontier mathematical and critical problem-solving capability.
8.3%
Self-reported
MMAU
#3 / 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.
77.0%
Self-reported
SimpleQA Verified
#4 / 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.
20.6%
Self-reported
AA-Briefcase
#4 / 4AA-Briefcase is an Artificial Analysis evaluation of AI systems on professional knowledge-work tasks, reported as an Elo score.
30.6%
Self-reported
VoiceBench Avg
#3 / 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.
90.1%
Self-reported