# Inkling Benchmark Scores & Performance

> Inkling by Thinking Machines Lab scores 52.13/100 overall, ranking #89 out of 932 AI models.

Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/models/inkling

Last updated: October 14, 2026

## Model Details

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Source Type | Open Weight |
| Reasoning Type | Hybrid |
| Context Window | 1M |
| Overall Score | 52.13/100 |
| Overall Rank | #89 of 932 |

## Family & Coverage

- Family: Inkling
- Variant: base
- Benchmarks covered: 49 of 628
- Sibling models: [Inkling-Small](/models/inkling-small)
- Coverage note: BenchLM currently has partial benchmark coverage for this model, so the overall score is conservative.

## Agentic Benchmarks

| Benchmark | Score | Source |
|-----------|-------|--------|
| [Terminal-Bench 2.1](/benchmarks/terminalbench21) | 63.8% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [BrowseComp](/benchmarks/browsecomp) | 77.1% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [MCP Atlas](/benchmarks/mcpatlas) | 74.1% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [Design Arena Agentic Web Dev](/benchmarks/designarenaagenticwebdev) | 1257 | [Design Arena: Agentic Web Dev leaderboard](https://intelligence.ai/leaderboard/webapps) |
| [GDPval-AA](/benchmarks/gdpvalaanormalized) | 28.8% | [Artificial Analysis model benchmarks](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/inkling) |
| [AA EnterpriseOps-Gym](/benchmarks/aaenterpriseopsgym) | 38.0% | [Artificial Analysis: enterprise-ops-gym-aa leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/enterprise-ops-gym-aa) |
| [Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)](/benchmarks/terminalbench21) | 47.6% | [Vals AI: Terminal-Bench 2.1 leaderboard](https://www.vals.ai/models/thinkingmachines_inkling) |
| [AA Agentic Index](/benchmarks/aaagenticindex) | 24.3% | [Artificial Analysis model benchmarks](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/inkling) |
| [GDPval-AA](/benchmarks/gdpvalaa) | 1076 | [Artificial Analysis: gdpval-aa leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/gdpval-aa) |
| [AA-AnalystAgent](/benchmarks/aaanalystagent) | 23.8% | [Artificial Analysis: aa-analyst-agent leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/aa-analyst-agent) |
| [AA Tau3 Banking](/benchmarks/aatau3banking) | 29.1% | [Artificial Analysis: tau3-banking leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/tau3-banking) |
| [AA Briefcase](/benchmarks/aabriefcaseelo) | 832 | [Artificial Analysis: aa-briefcase leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/aa-briefcase) |
| [AA AutomationBench](/benchmarks/aaautomationbench) | 5.0% | [Artificial Analysis: automationbench-aa leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/automationbench-aa) |
| [aaTerminalBench21](/benchmarks/terminalbench21) | 55.1% | [Artificial Analysis: terminalbench-v2-1 leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/terminalbench-v2-1) |
| [AA Terminal-Bench 4.0](/benchmarks/terminal-bench-4) | 1.0% | [Artificial Analysis: terminalbench-v4-0 leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/terminalbench-v4-0) |
| [GDP.pdf](/benchmarks/aagdppdf) | 12.8% | [Artificial Analysis: gdp-pdf leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/gdp-pdf) |
| [CWE-bench v1](/benchmarks/cwe-bench-v1) | 37.0% | [Collinear: CWE-bench v1 leaderboard](https://cwe-bench.com/) |

## Coding Benchmarks

| Benchmark | Score | Source |
|-----------|-------|--------|
| [SWE-bench Verified](/benchmarks/swe-bench-verified) | 77.6% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [SWE-bench Pro](/benchmarks/swe-bench-pro) | 54.3% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [Terminal-Bench 2.1](/benchmarks/terminalbench21) | 63.8% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [AA-SciCode](/benchmarks/aascicode) | 47.0% | [Artificial Analysis: scicode leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/scicode) |
| [FrontierSWE v2](/benchmarks/frontierswev2) | 4.1% | [Proximal: FrontierSWE v2 leaderboard](https://www.frontierswe.com/) |
| [LiveCodeBench (Vals)](/benchmarks/valslivecodebench) | 85.5% | [Vals AI: LiveCodeBench leaderboard](https://www.vals.ai/models/thinkingmachines_inkling) |
| [SWE-bench (Vals)](/benchmarks/valsswebench) | 77.6% | [Vals AI: SWE-bench leaderboard](https://www.vals.ai/models/thinkingmachines_inkling) |
| [AA Coding Index](/benchmarks/aacodingindex) | 52.1% | [Artificial Analysis model benchmarks](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/inkling) |

## Multimodal & Grounded Benchmarks

| Benchmark | Score | Source |
|-----------|-------|--------|
| [MMMU-Pro](/benchmarks/mmmu-pro) | 73.5% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [CharXiv](/benchmarks/charxiv) | 82% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [CharXiv w/o tools](/benchmarks/charxivnotools) | 78.1% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [AA-MMMU-Pro](/benchmarks/mmmu-pro) | 73.5% | [Artificial Analysis: mmmu-pro leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/mmmu-pro) |
| [Design Arena Website](/benchmarks/designarenawebsite) | 1228 | [OpenRouter model benchmarks](https://openrouter.ai/thinkingmachines/inkling/benchmarks) |

## Reasoning Benchmarks

| Benchmark | Score | Source |
|-----------|-------|--------|
| [AA-LCR](/benchmarks/lcr) | 77.3% | [Artificial Analysis: artificial-analysis-long-context-reasoning leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/artificial-analysis-long-context-reasoning) |
| [CritPt](/benchmarks/critpt) | 5.4% | [Artificial Analysis: critpt leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/critpt) |
| [MLCR-AA](/benchmarks/aamlcr) | 12.2% | [Artificial Analysis: mlcr-aa leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/mlcr-aa) |

## Knowledge Benchmarks

| Benchmark | Score | Source |
|-----------|-------|--------|
| [GPQA](/benchmarks/gpqa) | 87.9% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [GPQA-D](/benchmarks/gpqa-diamond) | 87.9% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [HLE](/benchmarks/hle) | 46% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [HLE w/o tools](/benchmarks/hlenotools) | 30% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index](/benchmarks/artificialanalysis) | 25.0% | [Artificial Analysis: artificial-analysis-intelligence-index leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index) |
| [AA-GPQA Diamond](/benchmarks/gpqa-diamond) | 87.2% | [Artificial Analysis: gpqa-diamond leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/gpqa-diamond) |
| [AA-HLE](/benchmarks/aahle) | 31.9% | [Artificial Analysis: humanitys-last-exam leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/humanitys-last-exam) |
| [AA-Omniscience Index](/benchmarks/aaomniscienceindex) | 2.0% | [Artificial Analysis: omniscience leaderboard](https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/omniscience) |
| [AA-Omniscience Accuracy](/benchmarks/omniscienceaccuracy) | 41.6% | [Artificial Analysis model benchmarks](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/inkling) |
| [AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate](/benchmarks/omnisciencehallucinationrate) | 67.7% | [Artificial Analysis model benchmarks](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/inkling) |
| [GPQA Diamond (Vals)](/benchmarks/gpqa-diamond) | 87.1% | [Vals AI: GPQA Diamond leaderboard](https://www.vals.ai/models/thinkingmachines_inkling) |
| [MMLU-Pro (Vals)](/benchmarks/mmlu-pro) | 86.3% | [Vals AI: MMLU Pro leaderboard](https://www.vals.ai/models/thinkingmachines_inkling) |

## Instruction Following Benchmarks

| Benchmark | Score | Source |
|-----------|-------|--------|
| [IFBench](/benchmarks/ifbench) | 79.8% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |

## Mathematics Benchmarks

| Benchmark | Score | Source |
|-----------|-------|--------|
| [AIME26](/benchmarks/aime2026) | 97.1% | [Thinking Machines Lab: Inkling launch post](https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/) |
| [FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)](/benchmarks/frontiermathv2tiers13) | 33.333% | [Epoch AI FrontierMath v2 leaderboard](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/frontiermath-tiers-1-3-v2) |
| [FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)](/benchmarks/frontiermathv2tier4) | 4.878% | [Epoch AI FrontierMath v2 leaderboard](https://epoch.ai/benchmarks/frontiermath-tier-4-v2?view=graph&tab=leaderboard) |

## Other Thinking Machines Lab Models

- [Inkling-Small](/models/inkling-small) - Score: 53.37