# Inkling-Small vs Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Inkling-Small and Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-small-vs-qwen3-8-omni-flash
- Last updated: September 18, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash 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

- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash leads overall 63 to 58.78.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 48.8 for Inkling-Small and 85.1 for Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE in Knowledge, with scores of 47.8% and 36.5%.
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Inkling-Small | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Hybrid | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 58.78 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 25 | 19 |
| 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)
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash | 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 |
| CoWorkBench | Coming soon | 75.3% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 43.7 (Supported · #101/154)
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash public-lane score: 53.5 (Estimated · #45/154)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.9% | 63.3% | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 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 |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 80.5% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 48.9% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 57.8% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 48.8 (#39/48)
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash public-lane score: 85.1 (Unranked · 7 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 81.3% | 91.4% | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 77.4% | 83.5% | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash |
| Vision2Web | Coming soon | 62.9% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 71.0% | Coming soon |
| LVBench | Coming soon | 76.9% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 91.8% | Coming soon |
| MathVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 96.2% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 42.7 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash | 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)
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash public-lane score: 54.9 (Estimated · #54/184)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.5% | 91% | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash |
| GPQA-D | 89.5% | 91.0% | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash |
| HLE | 47.8% | 36.5% | Inkling-Small |
| 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)
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash public-lane score: 87.7 (#29/124)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 82.2% | 81.5% | Inkling-Small |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 76.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash | 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 Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash?

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Inkling-Small and Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 48.8 for Inkling-Small and 85.1 for Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash currently has 19 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash vs Claude Fable 5.1](/compare/claude-fable-5-1-vs-qwen3-8-omni-flash)

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- [Inkling-Small profile](/models/inkling-small)
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