# Inkling-Small vs Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Inkling-Small and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-small-vs-reflection-beam-nvfp4
- Last updated: October 16, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 12
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 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

- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 leads overall 70 to 53.48.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 55 for Inkling-Small and 85.5 for Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 64.7% and 78.4%.
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Inkling-Small | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | Reflection AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Hybrid | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Overall Score | 53.48 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 28 | 19 |
| 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)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 64.7% | 78.4% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 |
| BrowseComp | 77.4% | 75.6% | Inkling-Small |
| MCP Atlas | 79.6% | 80.5% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 54.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 35.4% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 51.1% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 81.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 37.7 (Supported · #71/150)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.2% | 80.7% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.9% | 65.6% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 64.7% | 78.4% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 |
| SciCode | 48.7% | 46.9% | Inkling-Small |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 85.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 82.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 42.7% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 31.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 77.5% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 55 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: 85.5 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 40.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CritPt | 8.3% | 15.4% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 84.00% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 67.5 (#36/54)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | 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)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 89.5% | 89.3% | Inkling-Small |
| HLE | 47.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 31.6% | 34.8% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 |
| 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: 93.3 (#9/148)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: 86.2 (#44/148)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 82.2% | 79.2% | Inkling-Small |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 69.8 (#5/12)
- Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 public-lane score: 87.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.5% | 97.5% | Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 |
| 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 Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4?

Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Inkling-Small and Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 55 for Inkling-Small and 85.5 for Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 cover on BenchLM?

Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 currently has 19 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

## Related Comparisons

- [Inkling-Small vs Inkling](/compare/inkling-vs-inkling-small)
- [Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 vs Inkling](/compare/inkling-vs-reflection-beam-nvfp4)
- [Inkling-Small vs Beam 1.0 501B-A23B](/compare/inkling-small-vs-reflection-beam)
- [Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 vs Beam 1.0 501B-A23B](/compare/reflection-beam-vs-reflection-beam-nvfp4)

## Explore More

- [Inkling-Small profile](/models/inkling-small)
- [Beam 1.0 501B-A23B NVFP4 profile](/models/reflection-beam-nvfp4)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
- [Alternative Finder](/tools/alternative-finder)
- [LLM Selector](/tools/llm-selector)
- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)