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Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab · Open Weight · rank 58 · bench-align-v5
Canonical idinkling
Access typeOpen Weight
Blended $/1M$2.5775% input / 25% output
Capability shape
Seven axes from the ranking source. A missing axis is drawn as a gap.
Runtime service evidence
Measured values with the date they were observed. Nothing is inferred from a sibling model or a provider claim.
Time to first token: latency to the first answer chunk (Artificial Analysis, via BenchLM). Reasoning models include thinking time, so values can run to tens or hundreds of seconds.
Evidence key: Observed
| Measurement | Value | Observed | Last good | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first token | 25.01 s | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 | |
| Throughput | 90 tok/s | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
Regional or per-endpoint measurements appear only when the API supplies them; none are modelled here.
Endpoint and price matrix
Every published price component, including cache reads and writes.
| Component | USD | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.87 | |
| Output / 1M tokens | $4.68 | |
| Cache read / 1M tokens | $0.37 | |
| Cache write / 1M tokens | Unavailable | |
| Blended / 1M (75% input / 25% output) | $2.57 |
Self-hosted listingThinking 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. This uses the same calculator as the cost simulator, so an unavailable applicable rate makes the example unavailable too.
Benchmark record
39 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 |
| GPQA-D GPQA Diamond | 87.9 | Graduate-level science questions | Graduate level | Trinity-Large-Thinking: Scaling an Open Source Frontier Agent |
| HLE Humanity's Last Exam | 46 | Expert-level questions | Frontier expert level | Humanity's Last Exam |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 25.5 | Cross-benchmark intelligence index | Display-only external reference | Artificial Analysis |
| AA-GPQA Diamond Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond | 87.2 | Graduate-level science questions | Graduate-level science reasoning | Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond Benchmark Leaderboard |
| AA-HLE Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam | 31.9 | Expert-level questions | Frontier expert reasoning | Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam Benchmark Leaderboard |
| AA-Omniscience Index Artificial Analysis Omniscience Index | 2.0 | Knowledge questions | Broad factual knowledge | AA-Omniscience: Knowledge and Hallucination Benchmark |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy Artificial Analysis Omniscience Accuracy | 41.6 | Knowledge questions | Broad knowledge | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate Artificial Analysis Omniscience Hallucination Rate | 67.7 | Knowledge questions | Factuality | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| HLE w/o tools Humanity's Last Exam without tools | 30 | Expert-level questions | Frontier expert level | 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 |
| 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 |
Coding
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 63.8 | Terminal-based software tasks | Professional software engineering | Terminal-Bench 2.0 |
| 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? |
| SWE-bench Pro 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? |
| FrontierSWE v2 FrontierSWE v2 | 4.1 | 34 ultra-long-horizon engineering and research tasks | Ultra-long-horizon frontier software engineering | FrontierSWE v2 |
| AA Coding Index Artificial Analysis Coding Index | 52.1 | Cross-benchmark coding index | Display-only external reference | Artificial Analysis model leaderboards |
| AA-SciCode Artificial Analysis SciCode | 47.0 | Scientific coding subproblems | Scientific programming | Artificial Analysis SciCode Benchmark Leaderboard |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) LiveCodeBench, Vals AI run | 85.5 | Competitive programming problems (easy, medium, hard) | Frontier coding | Vals AI LiveCodeBench, Vals AI run leaderboard |
| 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 |
Mathematics
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIME26 AIME 2026 | 97.1 | Competition math problems | Olympiad-style mathematics | Qwen3.6 launch benchmarks |
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 |
| CritPt Critical Physics Tasks | 5.4 | Research-level physics questions | Research-level physics reasoning | CritPt Benchmark Leaderboard |
Instruction Following
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench Instruction Following Benchmark | 79.8 | — | — | BenchLM |
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 |
| AA EnterpriseOps-Gym Artificial Analysis EnterpriseOps-Gym | 38.0 | Enterprise operations workflows | Enterprise agent operations | Artificial Analysis EnterpriseOps-Gym Benchmark Leaderboard |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 63.8 | Terminal-based software tasks | Professional software engineering | Terminal-Bench 2.0 |
| BrowseComp BrowseComp | 77.1 | Research questions requiring browsing | Hard web research | BrowseComp |
| GDPval-AA GDPval-AA | 1165 | Agentic real-world work tasks | Professional agentic workflows | DeepSeek-V4 Technical Report |
| GDPval-AA GDPval-AA normalized | 33.3 | Economically valuable tasks | Professional agentic workflows | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| AA Agentic Index Artificial Analysis Agentic Index | 24.3 | Cross-benchmark agentic index | Display-only external reference | Artificial Analysis model leaderboards |
| AA-AnalystAgent Artificial Analysis AnalystAgent | 23.8 | Spreadsheet and document analysis questions | Business and data analysis | AA-AnalystAgent Benchmark Leaderboard |
| MCP Atlas MCP Atlas | 74.1 | Tool-integrated agent tasks | Advanced tool use | 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 |
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 |
| AA-MMMU-Pro Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro | 73.5 | Multimodal academic reasoning | Frontier multimodal | Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro Benchmark Leaderboard |
| Design Arena Website Design Arena Website Elo | 1228 | Website generation comparisons | Design and website generation | OpenRouter Grok 4.3 benchmarks |
| CharXiv CharXiv Reasoning | 82 | Scientific chart reasoning | Scientific visualization reasoning | CharXiv: Charting Gaps in Realistic Chart Understanding in Multimodal LLMs |
| 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 |
Lifecycle and limitations log
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What this profile does not claimValues are reproduced exactly as their sources published them, in the units those sources declared; none are converted, interpolated, or averaged across providers. Any field marked unavailable was attempted and not returned — the attempt timestamp is in each badge. Last attempted fetch for this model’s score: 2026-09-17 17:17 UTC.