# Inkling vs Kimi K3.1 Pro

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Inkling and Kimi K3.1 Pro across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-vs-kimi-3-1-pro
- Last updated: October 23, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K3.1 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Inkling only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Kimi K3.1 Pro leads overall 82 to 52.53.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 67.6 for Inkling and 98 for Kimi K3.1 Pro.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE in Knowledge, with scores of 46% and 70%.
- Inkling is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Kimi K3.1 Pro also has the larger context window at 1.05M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Inkling | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | Moonshot AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Pending |
| Reasoning | Hybrid | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1.05M |
| Overall Score | 52.53 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 24 | 42 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.87 / $4.68 | $2.00 / $10.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 37.1 (Supported · #77/132)
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 63.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 77.1% | 92.1% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| MCP Atlas | 74.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 47.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CWE-bench v1 | 37.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | Coming soon | 65.70% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 | Coming soon | 38.1% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 70.0% | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench | Coming soon | 80.6% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam | Coming soon | 43.2% | Coming soon |
| Agents' Last Exam (CLI) | Coming soon | 44.2% | Coming soon |
| APEX-Agents | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| Frontier Finance | Coming soon | 58.6% | Coming soon |
| HANDBOOK.md | Coming soon | 44.6% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |
| Business Operation | Coming soon | 37.8% | Coming soon |
| Financial Modeling | Coming soon | 57.6% | Coming soon |
| Financial Research | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon |
| Kimi Hallu Bench Hard (tools) | Coming soon | 8.3% | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | Coming soon | 20.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 33.8 (Supported · #84/153)
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 54.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 63.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 4.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 85.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 75.5% | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench (binary) | Coming soon | 31.5% | Coming soon |
| Kimi Code Bench v2 | Coming soon | 77.1% | Coming soon |
| Kimi Code Bench 3.0 Long-horizon | Coming soon | 61.2% | Coming soon |
| sweMarathon | Coming soon | 51.7% | Coming soon |
| PostTrainBench v1.2 | Coming soon | 36.5% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 78.1 (#12/27)
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- Inkling public-lane score: 67.6 (#37/56)
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: 98 (#1/56)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 73.5% | 84.1% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| CharXiv | 82% | 93.4% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 78.1% | 89% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| OfficeQA Pro | Coming soon | 67.4% | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro v2 | Coming soon | 64.4% | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (no tools) | Coming soon | 0.728 | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (tools) | Coming soon | 0.927 | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro w/ Python | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |
| Chartography (tools) | Coming soon | 90.2% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision w/ Python | Coming soon | 95.4% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 39.0% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench w/ Python | Coming soon | 63.0% | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (Gemini judge) | Coming soon | 34.6% | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf w/ Python (Gemini judge) | Coming soon | 85.7% | Coming soon |
| PerceptionBench | Coming soon | 68.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 54 (Supported · #65/187)
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.9% | 94.2% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| GPQA-D | 87.9% | 94.2% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| HLE | 46% | 70% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| HLE w/o tools | 30% | 51.1% | Kimi K3.1 Pro |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 86.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Kimi Hallu Bench | Coming soon | 5.4% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 87.6 (#38/153)
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 79.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 58.3 (#11/12)
- Kimi K3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Kimi K3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 97.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 33.333% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.878% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Inkling or Kimi K3.1 Pro?

Kimi K3.1 Pro is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Inkling and Kimi K3.1 Pro?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 67.6 for Inkling and 98 for Kimi K3.1 Pro.

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

Inkling currently has 24 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Kimi K3.1 Pro cover on BenchLM?

Kimi K3.1 Pro currently has 42 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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