# Inkling vs Qwen3.5 397B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Inkling and Qwen3.5 397B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-vs-qwen3-5-397b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 10
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Qwen3.5 397B leads by point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence. Choose using the category evidence and your own workload tests.

## Summary

- Qwen3.5 397B has the higher overall point estimate 55.63 to 52.13. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
- The clearest category separation is in mathematics, where the averages are 58.3 for Inkling and 81.7 for Qwen3.5 397B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 74.1% and 46.1%.
- Qwen3.5 397B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Inkling also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Inkling | Qwen3.5 397B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | Alibaba |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Hybrid | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 128K |
| Overall Score | 52.13 | 55.63 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 24 | 62 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.87 / $4.68 | $0.60 / $3.60 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Inkling public-lane score: 36.2 (Supported · #72/124)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 44.3 (Estimated · #55/124)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 63.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 77.1% | 69% | Inkling |
| MCP Atlas | 74.1% | 46.1% | Inkling |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 47.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CWE-bench v1 | 37.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 52.5% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 62.2% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 56.8% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 51.8% | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 68.4% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 43.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 37.6% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 36.3% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | Coming soon | 74.2% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 74.0% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 46.76% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 14.2% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 34 (Supported · #80/149)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.6% | 76.2% | Inkling |
| SWE-bench Pro | 54.3% | 50.9% | Inkling |
| 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 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 83.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 69.3% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 32.2% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 52.5% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 79 (#14/29)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 74.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 63.2% | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Qwen3.5 397B
- Inkling public-lane score: 67.5 (#35/54)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 73.6 (#29/54)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 73.5% | 79% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| CharXiv | 82% | 80.8% | Inkling |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 78.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 85.0% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 87.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |
| We-Math | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | Coming soon | 86.3% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 67.1% | Coming soon |
| MMLongBench-Doc | Coming soon | 61.5% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 93.9% | Coming soon |
| CountBench | Coming soon | 97.2% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.3% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 47.0% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 67.5% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.7% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 65.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 95.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Inkling public-lane score: 54.5 (Supported · #62/181)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 54.1 (Estimated · #64/181)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.9% | 88.4% | Qwen3.5 397B |
| GPQA-D | 87.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 46% | 28.7% | Inkling |
| 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 |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 70.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 87.8% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.9% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 93% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 93.8 (#5/17)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 84.7% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 88.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Inkling
- Inkling public-lane score: 87.6 (#35/128)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 79.9 (#56/128)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 79.8% | 76.5% | Inkling |
| IFEval | Coming soon | 92.6% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 58.3 (#11/12)
- Qwen3.5 397B public-lane score: 81.7 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Qwen3.5 397B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 97.1% | 93.3% | Inkling |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 33.333% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.878% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 94.8% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 87.9% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 80.9% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Inkling or Qwen3.5 397B?

Qwen3.5 397B has the higher overall point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.

### Where is the biggest gap between Inkling and Qwen3.5 397B?

The widest category gap is in mathematics, where the averages are 58.3 for Inkling and 81.7 for Qwen3.5 397B.

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

Inkling currently has 24 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.5 397B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.5 397B currently has 62 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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