# GLM-5 vs Inkling-Small

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5 and Inkling-Small across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-vs-inkling-small
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 9
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick GLM-5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Inkling-Small only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- GLM-5 leads overall 61.45 to 59.25.
- The clearest category separation is in mathematics, where the averages are 56.9 for GLM-5 and 76.9 for Inkling-Small.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 31.1% and 79.6%.
- Inkling-Small is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Inkling-Small also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | Inkling-Small |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Hybrid |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 61.45 | 59.25 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 36 | 25 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $3.20 | $0.58 / $1.44 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 51 (Estimated · #45/152)
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 36.9 (Supported · #128/152)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56.2% | 64.7% | Inkling-Small |
| Claw-Eval | 57.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 54.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 65.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 14.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 38% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 31.1% | 79.6% | Inkling-Small |
| MCP-Tasks | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 69.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 50.99% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 77.4% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 54.4% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 55.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.1 (Estimated · #39/151)
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 43.8 (Supported · #97/151)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.8% | 80.2% | Inkling-Small |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 72.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | 55.9% | Inkling-Small |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 74.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 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 |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 48.8 (#39/48)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 74% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 81.3% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | Coming soon | 77.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 52.1 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 42.7 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 40.1% | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 8.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 54.1 (Estimated · #57/183)
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 56.5 (Supported · #46/183)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 86% | 89.5% | Inkling-Small |
| GPQA-D | 86.0% | 89.5% | Inkling-Small |
| SuperGPQA | 66.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 50.4% | 47.8% | GLM-5 |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 31.6% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 83.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 88.5 (#31/123)
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 89.6 (#25/123)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 82.2% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.7 (#6/12)
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.9 (#7/7)
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 76.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Inkling-Small | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.8% | 95.5% | GLM-5 |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 97.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 96.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 86.4% | 90.2% | Inkling-Small |
| MMAnswerBench | 82.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 16.434% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 2.100% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GLM-5 or Inkling-Small?

GLM-5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GLM-5 and Inkling-Small?

The widest category gap is in mathematics, where the averages are 56.9 for GLM-5 and 76.9 for Inkling-Small.

### How many benchmarks does GLM-5 cover on BenchLM?

GLM-5 currently has 36 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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

Inkling-Small currently has 25 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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