# Inkling-Small vs o4-mini

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Inkling-Small and o4-mini across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-small-vs-o4-mini
- Last updated: October 29, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Inkling-Small and o4-mini share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Inkling-Small has the lower published output-token price.
- Inkling-Small has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Inkling-Small | o4-mini |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | OpenAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Hybrid | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 49.5 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 28 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.58 / $1.44 | $1.10 / $4.40 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 36.1 (Supported · #86/135)
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 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: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 36.9 (Supported · #77/156)
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o4-mini | 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 |
| HumanEval | Coming soon | 97.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 55 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- o4-mini public-lane score: 66.9 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o4-mini | 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 |
| DROP | Coming soon | 77.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 67.3 (#41/58)
- o4-mini public-lane score: 66.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o4-mini | 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: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 50.6 (Supported · #75/179)
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.5% | 77.6% | Inkling-Small |
| GPQA-D | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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 |
| MMLU | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | Coming soon | 20.2% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: Coming soon
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | Coming soon | 93.7% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 93.3 (#10/157)
- o4-mini public-lane score: 83.9 (#56/157)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o4-mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 82.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 69.8 (#5/12)
- o4-mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o4-mini | 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 |
| MATH-500 | Coming soon | 97.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Inkling-Small and o4-mini?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, 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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- [Inkling-Small vs Inkling](/compare/inkling-vs-inkling-small)
- [o4-mini vs Inkling](/compare/inkling-vs-o4-mini)
- [Inkling-Small vs o4-mini (high)](/compare/inkling-small-vs-o4-mini-high)
- [o4-mini vs o4-mini (high)](/compare/o4-mini-vs-o4-mini-high)

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