# ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview vs Inkling-Small

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview and Inkling-Small across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/ernie-5-5-flash-preview-vs-inkling-small
- Last updated: November 11, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Inkling-Small if you want the stronger benchmark profile. ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Inkling-Small leads overall 49.95 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Toolathlon-Verified in Agentic, with scores of 75.0% and 54.4%.
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling-Small |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Baidu | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Type | Pending | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Hybrid |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | 49.95 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 15 | 28 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $0.58 / $1.44 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 35.9 (Supported · #83/132)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 46.50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 | 21.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | 61.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | 64.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DRACO | 84.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SpreadsheetBench 2 | 36.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam (CLI) | 29.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 75.0% | 54.4% | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview |
| MCP Atlas | 84.6% | 79.6% | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview |
| BrowseComp | 87.4% | 77.4% | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 55.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 37.1 (Supported · #79/158)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 71.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | 29.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | 64.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 55.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 48.7% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 82.2% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 43.8 (Supported · #71/158)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 40.1% | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 8.3% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-1 | Coming soon | 84.00% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 51.7 (Estimated · #51/67)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro v2 | 67.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 74% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 81.3% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 77.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 50.7 (Supported · #76/179)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE w/o tools | 46.4% | 31.6% | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 89.5% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 89.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 47.8% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 83.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 93.3 (#10/157)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 82.2% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 64.6 (#5/12)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 90.2% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 46.316% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 17.073% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview or Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview cover on BenchLM?

ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview currently has 15 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Inkling-Small cover on BenchLM?

Inkling-Small currently has 28 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview vs Inkling](/compare/ernie-5-5-flash-preview-vs-inkling)
- [Inkling-Small vs Inkling](/compare/inkling-vs-inkling-small)

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