Updated November 7, 2026. Rank says Inkling 2 Small is ahead. Price, access, and your workload can each overturn that. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty.
Inkling 2 Small has the higher public point estimate, 59.06 versus 29.58. Their conditional score ranges do not overlap. These ranges do not establish rank confidence. 1 results are shared. Category rows resting on Estimated evidence or different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.
Thinking Machines Lab
59.06/100
Estimated · Public rank #56
Conditional range 44.7–73.4
Mistral
29.58/100
Estimated · Public rank #177
Conditional range 15.2–43.9
Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Inkling 2 Small
Inkling 2 Small has the higher public agentic point estimate, 59.9 to 21.1, with Supported evidence for both models. The conditional ranges do not establish rank confidence.
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
Inkling 2 Small
Inkling 2 Small has the larger documented context window.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Inkling 2 Small
Inkling 2 Small has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Inkling 2 Small
Inkling 2 Small has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Inkling 2 Small
Inkling 2 Small has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Not enough matched evidence
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B is scored on Estimated evidence for coding, so the reading is directional rather than like-for-like.
Choose a job from the LLM Selector's task catalog to see the category row it rests on, under the same basis rules as the table below. A directional row stays directional; choosing a job never creates a winner.
The same task catalog as the LLM Selector. Each job names the evidence surface it rests on; nothing here adds a new score.
Directional only · BenchAlign v5.8
Inkling 2 Small has the higher coding point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
Coding scores combine specific tasks and setups. Match the editor, harness, and effort to your workflow.
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.
2 categories rest on Estimated evidence or different evidence sets. Those rows remain visible for coverage context but do not name a winner.
Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.
Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.
SWE-bench VerifiedCoding
Normalized gap 4.6Each row shows the public-lane category score for both models: the BenchAlign v5.8 lane for agentic, coding, and knowledge, and the weighted public rows elsewhere, with the same rank each model page reports. A row is like-for-like only when both scores rest on Supported evidence or the same weighted set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner.
| Category | Inkling 2 Small | Mistral Medium 3.5 128B | Basis | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic | 59.9Supported · #26/131 | 21.1Supported · #115/131 | Like-for-likeBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 5 vs 3 public rows | Inkling 2 Small leads |
| Coding | 59.7Supported · #20/157 | 21.4Estimated · #133/157 | Directional onlyBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 6 vs 2 public rows | Directional only |
| Knowledge | 60.4Estimated · #46/178 | 29.0Supported · #159/178 | Directional onlyBenchAlign v5.8 lane · 2 vs 2 public rows | Directional only |
| Reasoning | 86.1Unranked · 2 rankable rows | 70.9Unranked · 2 rankable rows | Not comparableProvisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multimodal | 86.6#12/59 | 60.4Unranked · 1 rankable row | Not comparableProvisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Multilingual | Not ranked | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Instruction following | Not ranked | 84.0#55/157 | Not comparableProvisional lane · 0 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
| Math | 85.9Unranked · 2 rankable rows | Not ranked | Not comparableProvisional lane · 1 vs 0 weighted rows | Not comparable |
Ranks count the models scored in each category’s lane, so the agentic, coding, and knowledge denominators (BenchAlign v5.8) differ from the provisional-lane categories. Unranked scores sit on the provisional lane’s scale but never name a winner. Like-for-like rows within 0.5 points read as a practical tie.
Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Inkling 2 Small has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Inkling 2 Small has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Inkling 2 Small has the lower modeled cost
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.
Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.
Inkling 2 Small
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
256K
Inkling 2 Small
Not sourced
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
Not sourced
A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.
Inkling 2 Small
$0.03 per 1M cached input tokens
Tinker models and pricingMistral Medium 3.5 128B
Not published
Inkling 2 Small
Not sourced
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
Not sourced
Inkling 2 Small
Not sourced
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
Not sourced
Inkling 2 Small
Not sourced
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
Not sourced
Inkling 2 Small
Hybrid
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
Reasoning
Inkling 2 Small
Proprietary
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
Open Weight
Inkling 2 Small
Proprietary
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
Open Weight
Inkling 2 Small
2026-11-05
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B
2026-04-29
Inkling 2 Small has the higher public point estimate, 59.06 versus 29.58. Their conditional score ranges do not overlap. These ranges do not establish rank confidence. The page therefore keeps the decision tied to the specific documented workload.
Inkling 2 Small scores higher for coding on the public lane, 59.7 to 21.4. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B is scored on Estimated evidence for coding, so the reading is directional rather than like-for-like. BenchLM does not name a winner for coding from a directional reading; read the shared benchmark rows directly and test the models on the same task set.
Inkling 2 Small has the higher public agentic tasks point estimate, 59.9 to 21.1, with Supported evidence for both models. The conditional ranges do not establish rank confidence.
For the stated presets, chat costs $0.0008 on Inkling 2 Small and $0.00525 on Mistral Medium 3.5 128B; repository review costs $0.018 and $0.0975; the cache-heavy agent loop costs $0.022 and $0.405. Mistral Medium 3.5 128B has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Inkling 2 Small has the larger documented context window: 1M, compared with 256K.
Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.
The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.
Terminal-Bench 2.1
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BrowseComp
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DeepSearchQA
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MCP Atlas
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JobBench
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τ³-bench results
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Gert Labs
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Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)
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SWE-bench Verified
Inkling 2 Small leads this result
SWE Multilingual
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sweMarathon
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Terminal-Bench 2.1
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DeepSWE
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PostTrainBench v1.2
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SWE-bench (Vals)
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LongBench v2
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CharXiv
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CharXiv w/o tools
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Chartography (no tools)
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Chartography (tools)
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BabyVision
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BabyVision w/ Python
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ScreenSpot Pro
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PerceptionBench
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MathVision
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GPQA
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GPQA-D
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GPQA Diamond (Vals)
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MMLU-Pro (Vals)
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Last updated November 7, 2026