# ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview vs Inkling

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

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

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview and Inkling share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview has the lower published output-token price.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Baidu | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Type | Pending | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Hybrid |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 48.08 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 15 | 24 |
| Pricing (input/output) | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | $1.87 / $4.68 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling public-lane score: 36.7 (Supported · #80/132)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling | 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% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 84.6% | 74.1% | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview |
| BrowseComp | 87.4% | 77.1% | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 63.8% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 47.6% | Coming soon |
| CWE-bench v1 | Coming soon | 37.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling public-lane score: 33.6 (Supported · #96/158)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling | 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 | 77.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 54.3% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 63.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | Coming soon | 4.1% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 77.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling public-lane score: 37.7 (Estimated · #94/158)

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling public-lane score: 50 (Estimated · #56/67)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| OfficeQA Pro v2 | 67.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 73.5% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 82% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 78.1% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling public-lane score: 50.4 (Supported · #79/179)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE w/o tools | 46.4% | 30% | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 46% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 86.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling public-lane score: 87.6 (#40/157)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling public-lane score: 54.6 (#9/12)

| Benchmark | ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview | Inkling | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 97.1% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 33.333% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 4.878% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview and Inkling?

Not yet. The models share only 3 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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- [ERNIE 5.5 Flash Preview profile](/models/ernie-5-5-flash-preview)
- [Inkling profile](/models/inkling)
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