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·Released on Jul 30, 2026

Inkling Small API Benchmarks, Pricing & Provider Data

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Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of....

Quality
#65of 112
56.0
LMSpeed score
Cost
#55of 186
$0.00005/ 1M · 8:1 in:out
$0.000008 in · $0.000042 out

Category Performance

Observed-capability estimates with uncertainty reported separately from independent benchmark families.

Coverage
7 / 8
Methodology
V3.0
Category PerformanceObserved-capability estimates with uncertainty reported separately from independent benchmark families.Agents54.6Coding51.9Reasoning50.9Knowledge49.7Math52.5Multilingual-Multimodal45.8Instruction following57.6
#1Instruction following57.6Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
80% interval: 41.673.6
constraint followingPrior only
structured outputPrior only
novel instruction generalization57.6
ifbench · if_bench
long multiturn instructionPrior only
#2Agents54.6Estimated2/4 Measured dimensions
80% interval: 43.765.4
planningPrior only
tool use58.2
mcp_atlas · mcp_atlas
environment execution50.9
browsecomp · browse_comp / gdpval_aa · benchlm_agentic_gdpval_aa / terminalbench · benchlm_agentic_terminal_bench2
recovery reliabilityPrior only
#3Math52.5Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
80% interval: 38.166.9
foundational mathPrior only
competition math52.5
aime · aime2026 / hmmt · hmmt_feb2026
proof frontierPrior only
applied tool mathPrior only
#4Coding51.9RatedGlobal rank #214/4 Measured dimensions
80% interval: 45.058.7
code generation56
scicode · scicode
repository engineering47.7
swe_pro · swe_pro
debugging testing55.4
swe_verified · swe_verified
tooling quality48.4
terminalbench · benchlm_coding_terminal_bench2
#5Reasoning50.9RatedGlobal rank #383/4 Measured dimensions
80% interval: 42.259.6
abstract logic41.3
arc_agi · arc_agi2
scientific causal57.6
critpt · critpt / gpqa · gpqa / hle · hle / hle · hle_no_tools
multistep constraintsPrior only
evidence verification53.7
lcr · lcr
#6Knowledge49.7Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
80% interval: 35.863.7
broad knowledge49.7
aa_omniscience · aa_omniscience_index / benchlm_category_knowledge · benchlm_category_knowledge
professional knowledgePrior only
factualityPrior only
retrieval open bookPrior only
#7Multimodal45.8Estimated2/4 Measured dimensions
80% interval: 33.957.7
perception ocrPrior only
document spatial48.7
charxiv · charxiv
visual reasoning42.8
mmmu_pro · mmmu_pro
video actionPrior only
No data:Multilingual

Specifications

Input and output token limits for this model, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

INPUT
1.0Mtokens
1.3K pages of text
OUTPUT
262.1Ktokens
8K128K1M4M
1.0M

Features

Technical Details

Input
Output
Released
Jul 2026
Tokenizer
Other
Architecture
text+image+audio->text
Moderated
No
Supported parameters
frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogit_biaslogprobsmax_tokensmin_ppresence_penaltyreasoningreasoning_effortrepetition_penaltyseedstoptemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p

Rankings

Excels at

It's decent at

Falls behind in

Detailed scores

Updated: Sep 13, 2026

Overall

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Overall score56.0#65 / 112
Overall score
LMSpeed rank#65
Score56.0
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4

Speed & latency

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Output speed146.4 tok/s#27 / 80Time to first token1.85 s#51 / 80
Output speed
LMSpeed rank#27
Score146.4 tok/s
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
Time to first token
LMSpeed rank#51
Score1.85 s
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4

Pricing

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Input price$0.300/M#55 / 186Output price$1.20/M#50 / 186
Input price
LMSpeed rank#55
Score$0.300/M
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
Output price
LMSpeed rank#50
Score$1.20/M
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4

Agents

V3.0

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Score54.680% interval43.7–65.42/4 Measured dimensionsAgentic score56.7#48 / 77Terminal-Bench 2.064.7#26 / 53
Dimensions and evidence
Planning & decompositionPrior only
Tool use58.2
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mcp_atlas · mcp_atlas · z 0.64 · q 1.00
Environment & long-horizon execution50.9
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browsecomp · browse_comp · z -0.36 · q 1.00
gdpval_aa · benchlm_agentic_gdpval_aa · z 0.07 · q 1.00
terminalbench · benchlm_agentic_terminal_bench2 · z 0.06 · q 1.00
Recovery & completion reliabilityPrior only
Agentic score
LMSpeed rank#48
Score56.7
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
Terminal-Bench 2.0V3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#26
Score64.7
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
BrowseCompV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#19
Score77.4
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
MCP AtlasV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#6
Score79.6
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
Toolathlon-Verified
LMSpeed rank#8
Score54.4
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
AA Agentic Index
LMSpeed rank#37
Score24.9
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
GDPval-AA
LMSpeed rank#32
Score34.6
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
GDPval-AAV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#32
Score1191.0
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)
LMSpeed rank#28
Score55.1
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4

Coding

V3.0

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Score51.9#2180% interval45.0–58.74/4 Measured dimensionsSciCode49.7%#35 / 89Coding score52.6#47 / 87
Dimensions and evidence
Code generation56
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scicode · scicode · z 0.63 · q 1.00
Repository engineering47.7
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swe_pro · swe_pro · z -0.21 · q 1.00
Debugging & testing55.4
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swe_verified · swe_verified · z 0.71 · q 1.00
Tool-assisted development & quality48.4
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terminalbench · benchlm_coding_terminal_bench2 · z -0.19 · q 1.00
SciCodeV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#35
Score49.7%
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
Coding score
LMSpeed rank#47
Score52.6
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
SWE-bench VerifiedV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#12
Score80.2
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
SWE-bench ProV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#32
Score55.9
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
Terminal-Bench 2.0V3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#22
Score64.7
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
SciCodeV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#5
Score48.7
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
AA Coding Index
LMSpeed rank#42
Score53.0
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
AA-SciCodeV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#38
Score49.7
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
LiveCodeBench (Vals)
LMSpeed rank#18
Score85.9
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
SWE-bench (Vals)
LMSpeed rank#17
Score82.2
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4

Reasoning

V3.0

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Score50.9#3880% interval42.2–59.63/4 Measured dimensionsGPQA89.5%#41 / 218HLE33.3%#51 / 216
Dimensions and evidence
Abstract logic41.3
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arc_agi · arc_agi2 · z -1.24 · q 1.00
Scientific & causal reasoning57.6
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critpt · critpt · z 0.40 · q 1.00
gpqa · gpqa · z 0.83 · q 1.00
hle · hle · z 0.68 · q 1.00
hle · hle_no_tools · z -1.30 · q 1.00
Multi-step constraintsPrior only
Evidence integration & verification53.7
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lcr · lcr · z 0.14 · q 1.00
GPQAV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#41
Score89.5%
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
HLEV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#51
Score33.3%
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
Reasoning score
LMSpeed rank#64
Score42.7
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
ARC-AGI-2V3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#17
Score40.1
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
CritPtV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#39
Score8.3
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
AA-LCRV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#48
Score75.7
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4

Knowledge

V3.0

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Score49.780% interval35.8–63.71/4 Measured dimensionsKnowledge score66.0#47 / 83GPQA-D89.5#18 / 32
Dimensions and evidence
Broad knowledge49.7
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aa_omniscience · aa_omniscience_index · z -0.18 · q 1.00
benchlm_category_knowledge · benchlm_category_knowledge · z -0.22 · q 1.00
Professional knowledgePrior only
FactualityPrior only
Retrieval & open-book usePrior only
Knowledge scoreV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#47
Score66.0
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
GPQA-D
LMSpeed rank#18
Score89.5
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
HLE w/o tools
LMSpeed rank#17
Score31.6
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#59
Score26.1
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
AA-GPQA Diamond
LMSpeed rank#40
Score89.5
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
AA-HLE
LMSpeed rank#43
Score33.3
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
LMSpeed rank#48
Score33.2
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate
LMSpeed rank#63
Score63.0
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
GPQA Diamond (Vals)
LMSpeed rank#34
Score83.6
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
MMLU-Pro (Vals)
LMSpeed rank#31
Score85.6
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4

Math

V3.0

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Score52.580% interval38.1–66.91/4 Measured dimensionsMath score76.9#13 / 63AIME2695.5#6 / 14
Dimensions and evidence
Foundational mathPrior only
Competition math52.5
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aime · aime2026 · z 0.19 · q 1.00
hmmt · hmmt_feb2026 · z 0.45 · q 1.00
Advanced proofsPrior only
Applied & tool-assisted mathPrior only
Math score
LMSpeed rank#13
Score76.9
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
AIME26V3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#6
Score95.5
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
HMMT Feb 2026V3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#9
Score90.2
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4

Multilingual

V3.0

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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
Dimensions and evidence
Cross-language understandingPrior only
Multilingual generationPrior only
Reasoning transferPrior only
Low-resource robustnessPrior only

Multimodal

V3.0

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Score45.880% interval33.9–57.72/4 Measured dimensionsMultimodal Grounded score48.8#50 / 56MMMU-Pro74.0#26 / 31
Dimensions and evidence
Perception & OCRPrior only
Document & spatial understanding48.7
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charxiv · charxiv · z -0.02 · q 1.00
Visual reasoning42.8
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mmmu_pro · mmmu_pro · z -1.02 · q 1.00
Video & grounded actionPrior only
Multimodal Grounded score
LMSpeed rank#50
Score48.8
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
MMMU-ProV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#26
Score74.0
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
CharXivV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#17
Score81.3
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
CharXiv w/o tools
LMSpeed rank#9
Score77.4
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
AA-MMMU-Pro
LMSpeed rank#40
Score74.0
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4

Instruction following

V3.0

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Score57.680% interval41.6–73.61/4 Measured dimensionsInstruction Following score89.6#19 / 52IFBench82.2#2 / 14
Dimensions and evidence
Constraint followingPrior only
Structured outputPrior only
Novel-instruction generalization57.6
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ifbench · if_bench · z 0.72 · q 1.00
Multi-turn & long instructionsPrior only
Instruction Following score
LMSpeed rank#19
Score89.6
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4
IFBenchV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#2
Score82.2
UpdatedSep 13, 2026
Confidence4

OpenRouter endpoints

3 endpoints

Third-party OpenRouter endpoint data, shown separately from LMSpeed measurements. Some 30-minute live performance fields only appear after syncing with an OpenRouter API key.

Provider endpointInputOutput1d uptime30m latency30m throughputContext / output
Together
together
$0.500/M$1.20/M100%undefined tokens / undefined tokens
BaseTen
baseten/fp8
$0.500/M$1.20/M100.0%undefined tokens / undefined tokens
DeepInfra
deepinfra/fp8
$0.450/M$1.20/M99.4%undefined tokens / undefined tokens

Pricing Comparison

Compare Inkling Small API pricing across 12 providers. Prices range from $0.00005/request to $75.00/M. CM-API 公益站 offers the lowest rate at $0.00005/request.

ProviderHealthModel VariantGroupInput ($/M)Output ($/M)Speed (t/s)First tokenAudit
L1
100%
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
default
$75.00/M
$75.00/M
L1
100%
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
free
$0.00005/request
-
L1
99%
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
default
$0.073/request
-
L1
100%
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
default
$0.010/request
-
L1
0%
L2
100%
inkling-small
price
-100%$0.0003/M
Cache read$0.00006/MCache write$0.0003/MCache write 1h$0.0005/M
-100%$0.0012/M
L1
0%
inkling-small
model
$1.46/M
Cache read$0.0073/M
$14.60/M
L1
0%
inkling-small
无限制
$1.46/M
Cache read$0.0073/M
$14.60/M

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The Inkling Small API pricing table compares 12 providers by input price, output price, free tier status, speed, first-token latency, and recent health data when available.
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Inkling Small does not currently have a free API tier on LMSpeed. All 12 providers charge per token.

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