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Model A
Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab

67.02/100

Supported · Public rank #31

90% interval 60.0–74.0

Inkling vs Qwen3.7 Plus

Updated August 29, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.

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Model B
Qwen3.7 Plus

Alibaba

65.93/100

Supported · Public rank #35

90% interval 55.6–76.3

Decision reading

Inkling has the higher public score estimate, 67.02 versus 65.93, but the 90% score intervals overlap. Treat that as a lead, not a settled winner.

11 results are shared. Category rows based on different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.

Which one for your work

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.

No workload recommendation clears the current evidence threshold.

Use the matched evidence, workload costs, and sourced specifications below instead of treating a point score as a universal answer.

Show secondary and unsupported calls
  • Coding work

    Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks

    Not enough matched evidence

    The category averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so they are directional rather than like-for-like.

    Confidence: limited

  • Agentic work

    Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion

    Not enough matched evidence

    The category averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so they are directional rather than like-for-like.

    Confidence: limited

  • Long documents

    Prompts that approach the documented context limit

    No clear pick

    The documented context windows are equal.

    Confidence: documented

  • Chat turn cost

    1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.

    Confidence: listed-rates

  • Cache-heavy agent loop cost

    200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.

    Confidence: listed-rates

  • Repository review cost

    50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

    Not enough matched evidence

    A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.

    Confidence: listed-rates

What is actually comparable

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.

Shared results
11
Inkling only
4
Qwen3.7 Plus only
40
Like-for-like categories
1 / 8

4 categories use different evidence sets. Those rows remain visible for coverage context but do not name a winner.

Category results, on a stated basis

Each row states whether both averages use the same weighted benchmark set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner in this template.

Multimodal

Like-for-like
Inkling
76.5
Qwen3.7 Plus
81.5
Weighted basis
2 vs 2 rows
Reading
Qwen3.7 Plus leads

Agentic

Directional only
Inkling
69.4
Qwen3.7 Plus
71.7
Weighted basis
2 vs 2 rows
Reading
Directional only

Coding

Directional only
Inkling
68.6
Qwen3.7 Plus
75.6
Weighted basis
2 vs 4 rows
Reading
Directional only

Knowledge

Directional only
Inkling
51.6
Qwen3.7 Plus
60.1
Weighted basis
2 vs 4 rows
Reading
Directional only

Instruction following

Directional only
Inkling
79.8
Qwen3.7 Plus
84.5
Weighted basis
1 vs 2 rows
Reading
Directional only

Reasoning

Not comparable
Inkling
Not measured
Qwen3.7 Plus
91.7
Weighted basis
0 vs 1 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Math

Not comparable
Inkling
97.1
Qwen3.7 Plus
92.9
Weighted basis
1 vs 1 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Multilingual

Not comparable
Inkling
Not measured
Qwen3.7 Plus
85.4
Weighted basis
0 vs 1 rows
Reading
Not comparable

Shape of the matched evidence

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.

What each workload costs

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.

Chat turn

1K fresh input + 500 output tokens

Inkling
$0.00421
Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus
API rate not published
Fits in one request

Qwen3.7 Plus has no comparable published API token rate.

Repository review

50K fresh input + 3K output tokens

Inkling
$0.10754
Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus
API rate not published
Fits in one request

Qwen3.7 Plus has no comparable published API token rate.

Cache-heavy agent loop

200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens

Inkling
$0.159
Fits in one request
Qwen3.7 Plus
API rate not published
Fits in one request
Cached-input rate unavailable

Qwen3.7 Plus has no comparable published API token rate.

Specification differences

Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.

Context window

Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.

Inkling

1M

Qwen3.7 Plus

1M

API model ID

Inkling

Not sourced

Qwen3.7 Plus

Not sourced

Cached-input rate

A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.

Inkling

$0.374 per 1M cached input tokens

Qwen3.7 Plus

No comparable hosted API rate

Documented inputs

Inkling

Not sourced

Qwen3.7 Plus

Not sourced

Documented outputs

Inkling

Not sourced

Qwen3.7 Plus

Not sourced

Provider availability

Inkling

Not sourced

Qwen3.7 Plus

Not sourced

Reasoning profile

Inkling

Hybrid

Qwen3.7 Plus

Reasoning

Weight access

Inkling

Open Weight

Qwen3.7 Plus

Proprietary

License

Inkling

Open Weight

Qwen3.7 Plus

Proprietary

Release date

Inkling

2026-07-15

Qwen3.7 Plus

2026-06-03

If you already use one of these models
Deployment change
The models list different providers, so authentication, endpoint behavior, limits, and feature support may change.
Quality signal
Inkling has the higher public score estimate, 67.02 versus 65.93, but the 90% score intervals overlap.
Workload cost
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Context tradeoff
Both models list 1M.

Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.

Benchmark evidence

The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.

Browse raw public benchmark evidence55 rows

Agentic

  • Terminal-Bench 2.0

    Inkling63.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus70.3%
    Source

    Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result

  • BrowseComp

    Inkling77.1%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus

    Not directly comparable

  • MCP Atlas

    Inkling74.1%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus73.2%
    Source

    Inkling leads this result

  • QwenClawBench

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus61.8%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • Claw-Eval

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus62.7%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • BFCL v4

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus72.9%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • VITA-Bench

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus45.6%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • DeepPlanning

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus62.3%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • OSWorld-Verified

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus73.3%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • AndroidWorld

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus81.0%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • OSWorld 2.0

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus2.8%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Coding

  • SWE-bench Verified

    Inkling77.6%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus77.7%
    Source

    Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result

  • SWE-bench Pro

    Inkling54.3%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus57.6%
    Source

    Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result

  • Terminal-Bench 2.0

    Inkling63.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus70.3%
    Source

    Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result

  • SWE Multilingual

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus75.8%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • NL2Repo

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus41.1%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • SciCode

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus51.3%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • LiveCodeBench

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus89.6%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Reasoning

  • CritPt

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus9.1%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • MRCRv2

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus91.7%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Knowledge

  • GPQA

    Inkling87.9%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus90.3%
    Source

    Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result

  • GPQA-D

    Inkling87.9%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus90.3%
    Source

    Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result

  • HLE

    Inkling46%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus34.7%
    Source

    Inkling leads this result

  • HLE w/o tools

    Inkling30%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus

    Not directly comparable

  • MMLU-Pro

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus88.5%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • MMLU-Redux

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus94.5%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • SuperGPQA

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus71.4%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • MMMLU

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus89.0%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Math

  • AIME26

    Inkling97.1%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus

    Not directly comparable

  • HMMT Feb 2026

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus92.9%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • IMOAnswerBench

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus86.0%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • Apex

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus22.7%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Multilingual

  • MMLU-ProX

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus85.4%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • NOVA-63

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus58.8%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • INCLUDE

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus83.0%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • MAXIFE

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus88.8%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • PolyMath

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus84.0%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Multimodal

  • MMMU-Pro

    Inkling73.5%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus79%
    Source

    Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result

  • CharXiv

    Inkling82%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus85.9%
    Source

    Qwen3.7 Plus leads this result

  • CharXiv w/o tools

    Inkling78.1%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus

    Not directly comparable

  • MathVision

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus90.3%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • ERQA

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus69.8%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • MedXpertQA (MM)

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus71.0%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • ScreenSpot Pro

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus79.0%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • SimpleVQA

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus81.7%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • MMSearch-Plus

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus41.4%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • RealWorldQA

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus86.9%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • OmniDocBench 1.5

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus91.4%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • OCRBench V2

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus70.7%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • ODINW13

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus51.1%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • Video-MME (with subtitle)

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus88.0%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • VideoMMMU

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus85.4%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

  • MLVU (M-Avg)

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus87.4%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Instruction following

  • IFBench

    Inkling79.8%
    Source
    Qwen3.7 Plus79.1%
    Source

    Inkling leads this result

  • IFEval

    Inkling
    Qwen3.7 Plus94.6%
    Source

    Not directly comparable

Frequently asked questions

Which is better, Inkling or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Inkling has the higher public score estimate, 67.02 versus 65.93, but the 90% score intervals overlap. The higher estimate is not a decisive winner because the uncertainty ranges overlap.

Which is better for coding, Inkling or Qwen3.7 Plus?

The current coding averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so BenchLM does not name a winner from them. Read the shared benchmark rows directly and test the models on the same task set.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Inkling or Qwen3.7 Plus?

The current agentic tasks averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so BenchLM does not name a winner from them. Read the shared benchmark rows directly and test the models on the same task set.

Which costs less, Inkling or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Both models do not have comparable published API token rates, so this page does not name a universal price winner.

Which has the larger context window, Inkling or Qwen3.7 Plus?

Both models list the same context window, 1M.

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Last updated August 29, 2026

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