# Inkling-Small vs Ling 3.0 Flash > Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Inkling-Small and Ling 3.0 Flash across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks. - Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-small-vs-ling-3-0-flash - Last updated: September 10, 2026 - Shared sourced benchmarks: 15 - HTML indexing: indexable - Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5 ## Quick Verdict Pick Inkling-Small if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ling 3.0 Flash 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 59.25 to 47.51. - The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 42.7 for Inkling-Small and 71.2 for Ling 3.0 Flash. - The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE in Knowledge, with scores of 47.8% and 22.7%. - Ling 3.0 Flash 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 | |----------|----------|----------| | Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | InclusionAI | | Type | Open Weight | Open Weight | | Reasoning | Hybrid | Reasoning | | Context | 1M | 262K | | Overall Score | 59.25 | 47.51 | | Benchmarks Covered | 25 | 22 | | Pricing (input/output) | $0.58 / $1.44 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable | ## Category Breakdown ### Agentic - Winner: Coming soon - Inkling-Small public-lane score: 36.9 (Supported · #128/152) - Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 41.9 (Estimated · #108/152) | Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | BrowseComp | 77.4% | 72.2% | Inkling-Small | | MCP Atlas | 79.6% | 65.5% | Inkling-Small | | Toolathlon-Verified | 54.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 55.1% | 50.2% | Inkling-Small | | skillsBench | Coming soon | 44.8% | Coming soon | | BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 73.0% | Coming soon | | WideResearch | Coming soon | 73.6% | Coming soon | | DRACO | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon | ### Coding - Winner: Inkling-Small - Inkling-Small public-lane score: 43.8 (Supported · #97/151) - Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 40.4 (Supported · #113/151) | Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | SWE-bench Verified | 80.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | SWE-bench Pro | 55.9% | 56.6% | Ling 3.0 Flash | | Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | SciCode | 48.7% | 41.2% | Inkling-Small | | LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 85.9% | 84.0% | Inkling-Small | | SWE-bench (Vals) | 82.2% | 65.2% | Inkling-Small | | SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 72.4% | Coming soon | | LiveCodeBench v5 | Coming soon | 82.8% | Coming soon | ### Multimodal & Grounded - Winner: Coming soon - Inkling-Small public-lane score: 48.8 (#39/48) - Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon | Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash | 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 public-lane score: 71.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows) | Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | ARC-AGI-2 | 40.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | CritPt | 8.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon | ### Knowledge - Winner: Inkling-Small - Inkling-Small public-lane score: 56.5 (Supported · #46/183) - Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 44.6 (Supported · #113/183) | Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | GPQA | 89.5% | 85.0% | Inkling-Small | | GPQA-D | 89.5% | 85.0% | Inkling-Small | | HLE | 47.8% | 22.7% | Inkling-Small | | HLE w/o tools | 31.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon | | GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 83.6% | 84.8% | Ling 3.0 Flash | | MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 85.6% | 82.0% | Inkling-Small | ### Instruction Following - Winner: Inkling-Small - Inkling-Small public-lane score: 89.6 (#25/123) - Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 75.6 (#60/123) | Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | IFBench | 82.2% | 74.5% | Inkling-Small | ### Mathematics - Winner: Coming soon - Inkling-Small public-lane score: 76.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows) - Ling 3.0 Flash public-lane score: 73.7 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows) | Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Ling 3.0 Flash | Winner | |-----------|-----------|-----------|--------| | AIME26 | 95.5% | 93.2% | Inkling-Small | | HMMT Feb 2026 | 90.2% | 87.0% | Inkling-Small | | IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon | ## FAQ ### Which is better overall, Inkling-Small or Ling 3.0 Flash? Inkling-Small is ahead overall on BenchLM right now. ### Where is the biggest gap between Inkling-Small and Ling 3.0 Flash? The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 42.7 for Inkling-Small and 71.2 for Ling 3.0 Flash. ### 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 cover on BenchLM? Ling 3.0 Flash currently has 22 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM. ## Related Comparisons - [Inkling-Small vs Inkling](/compare/inkling-vs-inkling-small) - [Ling 3.0 Flash vs Inkling](/compare/inkling-vs-ling-3-0-flash) - [Inkling-Small vs Ling 3.0 Flash VL](/compare/inkling-small-vs-ling-3-0-flash-vl) - [Ling 3.0 Flash vs Ling 3.0 Flash VL](/compare/ling-3-0-flash-vs-ling-3-0-flash-vl) ## Explore More - [Inkling-Small profile](/models/inkling-small) - [Ling 3.0 Flash profile](/models/ling-3-0-flash) - [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing) - [Alternative Finder](/tools/alternative-finder) - [LLM Selector](/tools/llm-selector) - [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)