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Thinking Machines Lab · Inkling

Inkling-Small

Open weightsGenerally availableNewApache-2.0

Open-weights 276B/12B-active sibling of Inkling (full release after the July preview) that matches or beats Inkling on most benchmarks at roughly a quarter of the cost.

AA Intelligence
27.8#43 of 142
Input / output per 1M
$0.30/ $1.20
Output speed
202tok/s
Context window
1M tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#43 of 142
    28independentIntelligence Index v4.3; reasoning; estimatedArtificial Analysis: Inkling Small ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • SciCode#43 of 94
    49.7%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Inkling Small ↗
    48.7%vendorThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#48 of 88
    1%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Inkling Small ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#56 of 103
    64.7%vendorTerminal-Bench 2.1, best harnessThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗
    55.1%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Inkling Small ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • SWE-bench Verified#3 of 16
    80.2%vendorbash-only harnessThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗

    Leader: Claude Sonnet 5 at 85.2%

  • SWE-bench Pro#19 of 31
    55.9%vendorpublic setThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 89.9%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#35 of 103
    1269vendorGDPval-AA v2Thinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

  • MCP Atlas#2 of 9
    79.6%vendorpublic setThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 84.2%

  • BrowseComp#7 of 14
    77.4%vendorwith context managementThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 91.5%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • GPQA Diamond#45 of 142
    89.5%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Inkling Small ↗
    89.5%vendorThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#53 of 147
    47.8%vendorwith toolsThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗
    33.3%independentno tools; reasoningArtificial Analysis: Inkling Small ↗
    31.6%vendortext only, no toolsThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • CritPt#45 of 139
    8.3%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Inkling Small ↗
    8.3%vendorThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

  • AIME 2026#4 of 13
    95.5%vendorAIME 2026Thinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗

    Leader: ERNIE 5.1 at 99.6%

  • HMMT February 2026#2 of 8
    90.2%vendorHMMT Feb 2026Thinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 92.5%

  • ARC-AGI-2#18 of 25
    40.1%independentsemi-private; XHigh effort; ARC Prize verified; $0.23/taskARC Prize leaderboard (evaluations data) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 95%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#58 of 139
    75.7%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Inkling Small ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

  • MMMU-Pro#40 of 72
    74%independentreasoningArtificial Analysis: Inkling Small ↗
    74%vendorstandard 10 optionsThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 87.7%

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
tau2-Bench Banking (AA) · reasoning18.8%independentArtificial Analysis: Inkling Small ↗
AA-Omniscience Index · reasoning-8.9 indexindependentArtificial Analysis: Inkling Small ↗
AA Analyst Agent · reasoning27.5%independentArtificial Analysis: Inkling Small ↗
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 (as cited by vendor)40 indexvendorThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗
ARC-AGI-1 · semi-private; XHigh effort; ARC Prize verified84%independentARC Prize leaderboard (evaluations data) ↗
IFBench82.2%vendorThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗
SimpleQA Verified20.6%vendorThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗
Toolathlon Verified54.4%vendorThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗
tau3-Bench Banking15.5%vendorThinking Machines Lab: Introducing Inkling-Small ↗

Specs

Released
July 30, 2026
Parameters
276B total, 12B active
Size class
100 to 500B
Input
text, image, audio
Output
text
Context
1M tokens
Max output
Not published
Cached input
$0.06 / 1M
Blended 70/30
$0.57 / 1M
First token
2.58s
  • Price: Tinker models and pricing ↗ Tinker serverless inference (beta) rate; Tinker serving context is 256K.
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis leaderboard (Inkling Small, median across providers or first-party as shown) ↗

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