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How smart is Inkling-Small?

118 SI-IQ · 90% interval 115–122
Rank 43 of 80 ranked models · Plausible rank range 33–59

Inkling-Small is a model from Thinking Machines, released on Jul 15, 2026. Its SI-IQ is 118 (90% interval 115–122), estimated from 8 benchmark results by 2 evaluators.

Data as of Oct 18, 2026 · method 1.0.0

Facts

Developer
Thinking Machines
Released
Jul 15, 2026
Access
Open weights (restricted licence)
Benchmarks used
8 benchmark results from 2 evaluators

Ability by area (SI-IQ, 90% interval)

6080100120140160Math119Knowledge115

Every benchmark result we used

Each score is one value exactly as the source published it: for Epoch AI the best of its run settings, for OpenRouter the median hosting provider (the developer's own hosting when it ran the test). “Implied SI-IQ” is the ability that this single result points to; the overall SI-IQ is their precision-weighted average.

Benchmark Area Score Implied SI-IQ Evaluated by As listed by the source Retrieved Source
Mystery Game Puzzles Reasoning 6.0% 70 Epoch AI inkling-small_xhigh Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
FrontierMath Tier 4 Math 17.1% 121 Epoch AI inkling-small_xhigh Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 Math 46.3% 118 Epoch AI inkling-small_xhigh Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 Math 90.0% 116 Epoch AI inkling-small_xhigh Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
GPQA Diamond Knowledge 88.5% 121 Epoch AI inkling-small_xhigh Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
GPQA Diamond (OpenRouter run) Knowledge 87.0% 123 OpenRouter thinkingmachines/inkling-small-20260730
BaseTen · median over providers (3 of 3 rows)
Oct 18, 2026 OpenRouter benchmark datasets · data file
SimpleQA Verified Knowledge 19.1% 94 Epoch AI inkling-small_xhigh Oct 18, 2026 Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub · data file
τ²-bench Airline (OpenRouter run) Agents 60.8% 105 OpenRouter thinkingmachines/inkling-small-20260730
DeepInfra · median over providers (2 of 2 rows), lower median
Oct 18, 2026 OpenRouter benchmark datasets · data file

Human preference (Arena)

On the Arena leaderboard, where people vote between two anonymous answers, Inkling-Small has a rating of 1,404 (1,399–1,409) from 32,304 votes (published Oct 15, 2026). Human preference is a different measure from benchmark ability and is not part of SI-IQ. Arena (Hugging Face)

Models with similar SI-IQ

ModelSI-IQ
GPT-5.4 NanoOpenAI118Inkling-Small vs GPT-5.4 Nano
Kimi K2.7 CodeMoonshot118Inkling-Small vs Kimi K2.7 Code
Kimi K2.5Moonshot119Inkling-Small vs Kimi K2.5
GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI117Inkling-Small vs GPT-5.4 Mini
DeepSeek-V4-ProDeepSeek117Inkling-Small vs DeepSeek-V4-Pro

Computed with SI-IQ method version 1.0.0. Read the full methodology

Data sources: Arena leaderboard dataset on Hugging Face (CC BY 4.0); Epoch AI, ‘Capabilities & benchmarking’ (CC BY 4.0); Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai), licensed under CC BY 4.0: reuse and republish with attribution to OpenRouter (licences and changes).