# Inkling-Small vs Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Inkling-Small and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-small-vs-nemotron-3-5-bolt-74b-a9b-bf16
- Last updated: October 16, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 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

- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 leads overall 60 to 53.48.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 55 for Inkling-Small and 72.1 for Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 79.6% and 55.6%.
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 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 | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | NVIDIA |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Hybrid | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 256K |
| Overall Score | 53.48 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 28 | 8 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.58 / $1.44 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 36.8 (Supported · #77/128)
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 64.7% | 53.9% | Inkling-Small |
| BrowseComp | 77.4% | 70% | Inkling-Small |
| MCP Atlas | 79.6% | 55.6% | Inkling-Small |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 54.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 17.0% | Coming soon |
| PinchBench | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| WebArena | Coming soon | 50.3% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 37.7 (Supported · #71/150)
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 48.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 85.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 82.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 55 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: 72.1 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 40.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CritPt | 8.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 84.00% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 67.5 (#36/54)
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | 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 |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 55 (Supported · #59/184)
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 89.5% | 88.8% | Inkling-Small |
| HLE | 47.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 31.6% | 28.7% | Inkling-Small |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 83.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 93.3 (#9/148)
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 82.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 69.8 (#5/12)
- Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 90.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 46.316% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 17.073% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Inkling-Small or Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16?

Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Inkling-Small and Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 55 for Inkling-Small and 72.1 for Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 cover on BenchLM?

Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B BF16 currently has 8 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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