# Inkling vs o3

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Inkling and o3 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-vs-o3
- Last updated: October 17, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Inkling and o3 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 has the lower published output-token price.
- Inkling has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Inkling | o3 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | OpenAI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Hybrid | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 200K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 52.6 | 45.44 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 24 | 1 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.87 / $4.68 | $2.00 / $8.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 37.2 (Supported · #74/128)
- o3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | o3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 63.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 77.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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 |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 33.9 (Supported · #82/150)
- o3 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | o3 | 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 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 79 (#14/28)
- o3 public-lane score: 77.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 67.5 (#35/54)
- o3 public-lane score: 67.8 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Inkling | o3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 73.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 82% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 78.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 54.6 (Supported · #63/184)
- o3 public-lane score: 48.6 (Estimated · #88/184)

| Benchmark | Inkling | o3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 87.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 46% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 30% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 86.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 87.6 (#36/148)
- o3 public-lane score: 87.4 (#38/148)

| Benchmark | Inkling | o3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 79.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 58.3 (#11/12)
- o3 public-lane score: 48.5 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Inkling | o3 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 97.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 33.333% | 33.333% | Tie |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.878% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Inkling and o3?

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.

## Related Comparisons

- [Inkling vs Inkling-Small](/compare/inkling-vs-inkling-small)
- [o3 vs Inkling-Small](/compare/inkling-small-vs-o3)
- [Inkling vs o3-pro](/compare/inkling-vs-o3-pro)
- [o3 vs o3-pro](/compare/o3-vs-o3-pro)

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