# Inkling vs Sage-A1.5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Inkling and Sage-A1.5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-vs-sage-a1-5
- Last updated: October 20, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Inkling and Sage-A1.5 share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Sage-A1.5 has the lower published output-token price.
- Inkling has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Inkling | Sage-A1.5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | InternScience |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Hybrid | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 52.58 | 62.95 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 24 | 12 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.87 / $4.68 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 37.1 (Supported · #77/132)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: 57.7 (Estimated · #36/132)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 63.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 77.1% | 81.7% | Sage-A1.5 |
| 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 |
| GAIA | Coming soon | 95.1% | Coming soon |
| MLE-Bench Lite | Coming soon | 65.2% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 55.1% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 45.4% | Coming soon |
| PinchBench | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 33.6 (Supported · #85/153)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: 54 (Estimated · #34/153)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 54.3% | 61.2% | Sage-A1.5 |
| 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 |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 72.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 78.1 (#12/27)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: 80.6 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CritPt | Coming soon | 20.0% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 67.8 (#35/55)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Sage-A1.5 | 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: 54.4 (Supported · #65/187)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Sage-A1.5 | 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 |
| FrontierScience Research | Coming soon | 48.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 87.6 (#38/152)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: 91.9 (#22/152)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Sage-A1.5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 79.8% | 81.6% | Sage-A1.5 |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 58.3 (#11/12)
- Sage-A1.5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | Sage-A1.5 | 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

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Inkling and Sage-A1.5?

Not yet. The models share only 3 sourced benchmark rows, 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.

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