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Inkling Small

Inkling Small is an open-weight model from Thinking Machines, released July 30, 2026. It ranks #32 of 32 models on the Vals Index with 27.59%. Its best result is #38 of 109 on MedScribe.

Release Date: Jul 30, 2026

Developer Thinking Machines  🇺🇸
Context Window 262k
Max Output Tokens 262k
Token Costs (in/out) $0.30/1.20
Weights Open
Input Modalities

Accuracy

27.59 % ± 1.13

Cost / Test (Vals Index)

$ 0.401

Latency

16 min 26 s

Vals Index
BenchmarksAccuracyRankings
Vals Index

27.59%

±1.13
32/32
Vals Finance Index

36.27%

±1.56
35/35
Vals Legal Index

57.83%

±1.70
31/33
Code Migration v1.1

10.43%

±2.32
28/29
CyberBench v1.1

64.11%

±6.17
34/47
EMB v1.1

40.82%

±3.21
37/37
Finance Agent v2.1

44.78%

±2.10
35/35
Legal Research Bench

25.48%

±3.03
61/89
MedCode

37.89%

±2.21
75/107
MedScribe

84.11%

±1.87
38/109
MortgageTax

62.28%

±0.95
55/98
ProofBench v1.1

6.00%

±2.39
49/52
Public Benefits Bench v1.1

59.41%

±1.28
34/50
Tax Agent Bench

15.39%

±2.37
57/80
TaxEval v2

75.51%

±0.84
18/145
Vibe Code Bench v1.1

19.05%

±3.40
94/123
HLAB-Vals-1.1

2.92%

±1.36
32/33
GPQA Diamond

83.59%

±2.04
57/138
IOI

9.33%

±4.47
45/46
LiveCodeBench

85.93%

±0.99
26/143
LegalBench

82.99%

±0.46
62/151
MMLU Pro

85.57%

±0.35
58/138
ProgramBench

0.50%

±0.50
31/64
SkillsBench

33.58%

±3.66
32/35
SWE-bench

82.20%

±1.71
20/88
Terminal-Bench 4.0

0.00%

±0.00
57/59
Proprietary BenchmarksAcademic BenchmarksIndustry Partners
Vals
Default Provider : Thinkingmachines
Temperature: 1
Top P: 1
Top K: Default
Max Output Tokens: 262,000
Reasoning Effort: 0.99

Compared with

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