# Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab · Open Weight · rank 91 · bench-align-v5

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## Facts

| Field | Value | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canonical id | `inkling` | — |
| Overall score | 52.58 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:models |
| Context window | 1M tokens | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:models |
| Release date | 2026-07-15 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:models |
| Access type | Open Weight | — |
| Blended $/1M (75% input / 25% output) | $2.57 | Derived from the input and output rates below |

## Capability evidence

Seven axes from the ranking source. An axis the source did not score is unavailable, not zero.

| Axis | Score | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agentic | 62.7 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:models |
| Coding | 54.3 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:models |
| Knowledge | 68.1 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:models |
| Reasoning | 78.1 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:models |
| Multimodal & Grounded | 67.8 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:models |
| Instruction Following | 87.6 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:models |
| Math | 58.3 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:models |

## Runtime service evidence

Measured values with the date they were observed. Nothing is inferred from a sibling model or a provider claim. Regional or per-endpoint measurements appear only when the API supplies them; none are modelled.

| Measurement | Value | Observed | Last good | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Time to first token | 10.7 s | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-23 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:speed |
| Throughput | 223 tok/s | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-23 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:speed |

## Endpoint and price matrix

Every published price component, including cache reads and writes.

| Component | USD | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.87 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:pricing |
| Output / 1M tokens | $4.68 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:pricing |
| Cache read / 1M tokens | $0.37 | Observed 2026-10-23 · source benchlm:pricing |
| Cache write / 1M tokens | Unavailable | Unavailable · source openrouter:pricing |
| Blended / 1M (75% input / 25% output) | $2.57 | Derived — from the input and output rates above; it has no source record of its own |
| Cost per successful task (LiveBench) | Unavailable | Fetch failed · source livebench:table |

**Self-hosted listing.** Thinking Machines Lab's Tinker pricing docs list the 64K Inkling tier at $1.87 prefill / $0.374 cached prefill / $4.68 sample per million tokens during a limited-time 50% discount. The hosted 256K tier costs $3.74 / $0.748 cached / $9.36, while the released checkpoint supports up to 1M tokens when self-hosted. BenchLM stores the lower-context hosted tier as the headline API rate and the model's architectural context ceiling separately. The rates above are a hosted price matched from another provider, not a first-party list price.

## Workload-aware monthly cost example

10 conversations per day × 8 messages × 22 active days, 1200 input and 400 output tokens per message, no cache. Derived here from the published rates above by this site's own calculator — not a figure any source published.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Modelled monthly cost | $7.24 |
| Modelled tokens | 2.82M |

## Benchmark record

50 matched benchmark rows with their published value, unit, and provenance.

### Knowledge

| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| GPQA (Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A) | 87.9 | 448 questions | Graduate level | [GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12022) |
| GPQA-D (GPQA Diamond) | 87.9 | Graduate-level science questions | Graduate level | [GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12022) |
| HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) | 46 | Expert-level questions | Frontier expert level | [Humanity's Last Exam](https://lastexam.ai/) |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 25.0 | Cross-benchmark intelligence index | Display-only external reference | [Artificial Analysis](https://artificialanalysis.ai/) |
| AA-GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond) | 87.2 | Graduate-level science questions | Graduate-level science reasoning | [Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond Benchmark Leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/gpqa-diamond) |
| AA-HLE (Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam) | 31.9 | Expert-level questions | Frontier expert reasoning | [Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam Benchmark Leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/hle) |
| AA-Omniscience Index (Artificial Analysis Omniscience Index) | 2.0 | Knowledge questions | Broad factual knowledge | [AA-Omniscience: Knowledge and Hallucination Benchmark](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience) |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy (Artificial Analysis Omniscience Accuracy) | 41.6 | Knowledge questions | Broad knowledge | [Artificial Analysis model benchmarks](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/grok-4-3) |
| AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate (Artificial Analysis Omniscience Hallucination Rate) | 67.7 | Knowledge questions | Factuality | [Artificial Analysis model benchmarks](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/grok-4-3) |
| HLE w/o tools (Humanity's Last Exam without tools) | 30 | Expert-level questions | Frontier expert level | [Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano](https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4-mini-and-nano/) |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) (GPQA Diamond, Vals AI run) | 87.1 | Graduate-level science questions | Expert reasoning | [Vals AI GPQA Diamond, Vals AI run leaderboard](https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/gpqa) |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) (MMLU-Pro, Vals AI run) | 86.3 | Academic multiple-choice questions | Broad academic knowledge | [Vals AI MMLU-Pro, Vals AI run leaderboard](https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/mmlu_pro) |

### Coding

| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 63.8 | Terminal-based software-agent tasks | Professional software engineering | [Terminal-Bench](https://www.tbench.ai/) |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 63.8 | Terminal-based software tasks | Professional software engineering | [Terminal-Bench 2.0](https://www.tbench.ai/) |
| SWE-bench Verified (Software Engineering Benchmark Verified) | 77.6 | 500 verified issues | Professional software engineering | [SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06770) |
| SWE-bench Pro | 54.3 | 1,865 repository problems | Long-horizon professional engineering | [SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16941) |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 4.1 | 34 ultra-long-horizon engineering and research tasks | Ultra-long-horizon frontier software engineering | [FrontierSWE v2](https://www.frontierswe.com/blog/v2) |
| AA Coding Index (Artificial Analysis Coding Index) | 52.1 | Cross-benchmark coding index | Display-only external reference | [Artificial Analysis model leaderboards](https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models) |
| AA-SciCode (Artificial Analysis SciCode) | 47.0 | Scientific coding subproblems | Scientific programming | [Artificial Analysis SciCode Benchmark Leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/scicode) |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) (LiveCodeBench, Vals AI run) | 85.5 | Competitive programming problems (easy, medium, hard) | Frontier coding | [Vals AI LiveCodeBench, Vals AI run leaderboard](https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/lcb) |
| SWE-bench (Vals) (SWE-bench, Vals AI run) | 77.6 | Real repository issues by human time bucket | Frontier coding agents | [Vals AI SWE-bench, Vals AI run leaderboard](https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/swebench) |

### Mathematics

| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AIME26 (AIME 2026) | 97.1 | Competition math problems | Olympiad-style mathematics | [Qwen3.6 launch benchmarks](https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6) |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) (FrontierMath v2 Tiers 1-3) | 33.333 | 285 private advanced mathematics problems | From olympiad-plus to early research mathematics | [FrontierMath v2 benchmark hub](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/frontiermath-tiers-1-3-v2) |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) (FrontierMath v2 Tier 4) | 4.878 | 41 private extreme-difficulty mathematics problems | Research-level mathematics requiring hours or days of expert work | [FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 leaderboard](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/frontiermath-tier-4-v2?view=graph&tab=leaderboard) |

### Reasoning

| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AA-LCR (Artificial Analysis Long Context Reasoning) | 77.3 | Long-context reasoning tasks | Long-context reasoning | [Artificial Analysis model benchmarks](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/grok-4-3) |
| MLCR-AA (Medical Long Context Reasoning (MLCR-AA)) | 12.2 | Long, fragmented medical-record reasoning | Long-context medical reasoning | [Medical Long Context Reasoning (MLCR-AA)](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/mlcr-aa) |
| CritPt (Critical Physics Tasks) | 5.4 | Research-level physics questions | Research-level physics reasoning | [CritPt Benchmark Leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/critpt) |

### Instruction Following

| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| IFBench (Instruction Following Benchmark) | 79.8 | — | — | [BenchLM](https://benchlm.ai/benchmarks/ifbench) |

### Agentic

| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Design Arena Agentic Web Dev (Design Arena Agentic Web Dev Elo) | 1257 | Multi-file web application development | Agentic frontend development | [Design Arena Web Dev (Agentic) Leaderboard](https://intelligence.ai/leaderboard/webapps) |
| AA Briefcase (Artificial Analysis Briefcase) | 832 | Professional knowledge-work tasks | Professional work | [Artificial Analysis Briefcase Benchmark Leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/aa-briefcase) |
| AA AutomationBench (Artificial Analysis AutomationBench) | 5.0 | Business-process automation tasks | Agentic automation | [Artificial Analysis AutomationBench Benchmark Leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/automationbench-aa) |
| AA EnterpriseOps-Gym (Artificial Analysis EnterpriseOps-Gym) | 38.0 | Enterprise operations workflows | Enterprise agent operations | [Artificial Analysis EnterpriseOps-Gym Benchmark Leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/enterprise-ops-gym-aa) |
| AA Tau3 Banking (Artificial Analysis Tau3-Banking) | 29.1 | Banking tool-use workflows | Agentic banking workflows | [Artificial Analysis Tau3-Banking Benchmark Leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/tau3-banking) |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 63.8 | Terminal-based software tasks | Professional software engineering | [Terminal-Bench 2.0](https://www.tbench.ai/) |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 63.8 | Terminal-based software-agent tasks | Professional software engineering | [Terminal-Bench](https://www.tbench.ai/) |
| BrowseComp | 77.1 | Research questions requiring browsing | Hard web research | [BrowseComp](https://openai.com/index/browsecomp/) |
| GDPval-AA | 1076 | Agentic real-world work tasks | Professional agentic workflows | [DeepSeek-V4 Technical Report](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro/blob/main/DeepSeek_V4.pdf) |
| GDPval-AA (GDPval-AA normalized) | 28.8 | Economically valuable tasks | Professional agentic workflows | [Artificial Analysis model benchmarks](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/grok-4-3) |
| AA Agentic Index (Artificial Analysis Agentic Index) | 24.3 | Cross-benchmark agentic index | Display-only external reference | [Artificial Analysis model leaderboards](https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models) |
| AA Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Artificial Analysis Terminal-Bench v4.0) | 1.0 | Terminal-based agent tasks | Agentic software engineering | [Artificial Analysis Terminal-Bench v4.0 Benchmark Leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/terminalbench-v4-0) |
| GDP.pdf (Artificial Analysis GDP.pdf) | 12.8 | Professional document-production tasks | Professional knowledge work | [GDP.pdf Benchmark Leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/gdp-pdf) |
| AA-AnalystAgent (Artificial Analysis AnalystAgent) | 23.8 | Spreadsheet and document analysis questions | Business and data analysis | [AA-AnalystAgent Benchmark Leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/aa-analyst-agent) |
| MCP Atlas | 74.1 | Tool-integrated agent tasks | Advanced tool use | [Introducing GPT-5.4 mini and nano](https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4-mini-and-nano/) |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) (Terminal-Bench 2.1, Vals AI run) | 47.6 | Difficult terminal tasks | Frontier agentic | [Vals AI Terminal-Bench 2.1, Vals AI run leaderboard](https://www.vals.ai/benchmarks/terminal-bench-2-1) |
| CWE-bench v1 | 37.0 | Audit and patch held-out C/C++, Go, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, and Rust repositories | Frontier agent evaluation | [CWE-bench v1 leaderboard and methodology](https://cwe-bench.com/) |

### Multimodal & Grounded

| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MMMU-Pro (Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding Pro) | 73.5 | Multimodal academic reasoning | Frontier multimodal | [MMMU-Pro: A More Robust Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding Benchmark](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02813) |
| AA-MMMU-Pro (Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro) | 73.5 | Multimodal academic reasoning | Frontier multimodal | [Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro Benchmark Leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/mmmu-pro) |
| Design Arena Website (Design Arena Website Elo) | 1224 | Website generation comparisons | Design and website generation | [OpenRouter Grok 4.3 benchmarks](https://openrouter.ai/x-ai/grok-4.3/benchmarks) |
| CharXiv (CharXiv Reasoning) | 82 | Scientific chart reasoning | Scientific visualization reasoning | [CharXiv: Charting Gaps in Realistic Chart Understanding in Multimodal LLMs](https://charxiv.github.io/) |
| CharXiv w/o tools (CharXiv Reasoning without tools) | 78.1 | Scientific chart reasoning (tool-free) | Scientific visualization reasoning | [CharXiv: Charting Gaps in Realistic Chart Understanding in Multimodal LLMs](https://charxiv.github.io/) |

## Lifecycle and limitations log

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## What this profile does not claim

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