# Inkling vs Beam

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-vs-reflection-beam
- Last updated: October 5, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

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

## Summary

- Inkling leads overall 53.29 to 0.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Agentic, with scores of 63.8% and 80.1%.
- Beam 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 | Beam |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | Reflection AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Pending |
| Reasoning | Hybrid | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | null |
| Overall Score | 53.29 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 22 | 16 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.87 / $4.68 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 36.2 (Supported · #66/119)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 63.8% | 80.1% | Beam |
| BrowseComp | 77.1% | 77.4% | Beam |
| MCP Atlas | 74.1% | 78.7% | Beam |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 47.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CWE-bench v1 | 37.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 80.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 35.8 (Supported · #74/144)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.6% | 80.9% | Beam |
| SWE-bench Pro | 54.3% | 65.5% | Beam |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 63.8% | 80.1% | Beam |
| 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 | 44.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 34.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 49.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 75.5 (#12/27)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 65.5% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 49.7 (#40/49)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Beam | 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: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 54.2 (Supported · #50/171)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 87.9% | 90.5% | Beam |
| HLE | 46% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 30% | 36.2% | Beam |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 86.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 83.2 (#44/125)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 79.8% | 79.7% | Inkling |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Inkling public-lane score: 78.5 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Beam public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Beam | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 97.1% | 97.8% | Beam |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Inkling or Beam?

Inkling is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

Inkling currently has 22 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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

Beam currently has 16 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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