# Inkling vs SWE-2 Flash

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Inkling and SWE-2 Flash across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-vs-swe-2-flash
- Last updated: November 5, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Inkling and SWE-2 Flash share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- SWE-2 Flash has the lower published output-token price.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Inkling | SWE-2 Flash |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | Cognition |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Hybrid | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 48.1 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 24 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.87 / $4.68 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 37.1 (Supported · #82/135)
- SWE-2 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | SWE-2 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 63.8% | 89.2% | SWE-2 Flash |
| 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 |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | Coming soon | 20.00% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 33 (Supported · #95/156)
- SWE-2 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | SWE-2 Flash | 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% | 89.2% | SWE-2 Flash |
| 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 |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | Coming soon | 45.5% | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Atlas Codebase QnA | Coming soon | 50.0% | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 2.0 | Coming soon | 24.0% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 78.1 (#10/26)
- SWE-2 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 68.1 (#38/58)
- SWE-2 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | SWE-2 Flash | 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: 51.2 (Supported · #76/177)
- SWE-2 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | SWE-2 Flash | 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 (#40/157)
- SWE-2 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | SWE-2 Flash | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 79.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Inkling public-lane score: 58.3 (#11/12)
- SWE-2 Flash public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Inkling | SWE-2 Flash | 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 SWE-2 Flash?

Not yet. The models share only 2 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.

## Related Comparisons

- [Inkling vs Inkling-Small](/compare/inkling-vs-inkling-small)
- [SWE-2 Flash vs Inkling-Small](/compare/inkling-small-vs-swe-2-flash)
- [Inkling vs SWE-1.7](/compare/inkling-vs-swe-1-7)
- [SWE-2 Flash vs SWE-1.7](/compare/swe-1-7-vs-swe-2-flash)

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