# Inkling-Small vs Ling 3.0 Flash FP8

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Inkling-Small and Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-small-vs-ling-3-0-flash-fp8
- Last updated: September 18, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Inkling-Small if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 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 58.78 to 56.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 89.2 for Inkling-Small and 69.7 for Ling 3.0 Flash FP8.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is IFBench in Instruction Following, with scores of 82.2% and 73.4%.
- Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 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 | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | InclusionAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Hybrid | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Overall Score | 58.78 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 25 | 4 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.58 / $1.44 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 36.6 (Supported · #134/154)
- Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 79.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 54.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 43.7 (Supported · #101/154)
- Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 48.7% | 40.4% | Inkling-Small |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 85.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 82.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 48.8 (#39/48)
- Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 81.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 42.7 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 40.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CritPt | 8.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 56.3 (Supported · #47/184)
- Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.5% | 84% | Inkling-Small |
| GPQA-D | 89.5% | 84.0% | Inkling-Small |
| HLE | 47.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 31.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 83.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Inkling-Small
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 89.2 (#20/124)
- Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 public-lane score: 69.7 (#65/124)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 82.2% | 73.4% | Inkling-Small |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 76.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 90.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Inkling-Small or Ling 3.0 Flash FP8?

Inkling-Small is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Inkling-Small and Ling 3.0 Flash FP8?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 89.2 for Inkling-Small and 69.7 for Ling 3.0 Flash FP8.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 cover on BenchLM?

Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 currently has 4 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

## Related Comparisons

- [Inkling-Small vs Inkling](/compare/inkling-vs-inkling-small)
- [Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 vs Inkling](/compare/inkling-vs-ling-3-0-flash-fp8)
- [Inkling-Small vs Ling 3.0 Flash](/compare/inkling-small-vs-ling-3-0-flash)
- [Ling 3.0 Flash FP8 vs Ling 3.0 Flash](/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vs-ling-3-0-flash-fp8)

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