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Inkling 2 Small

Thinking Machines

Strongest in Legal (#11 of 173), weakest in Human preference (#121 of 354). Above par in 14 of 15 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Gemini 4 Carbon and Muse Wonder Full and ahead of Gemini 3.7 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Agents59.4#18/298
Knowledge work65.1#21/208
Coding55#36/179
Agentic coding55.5#35/173
Reasoning54.7#50/195
Reasoning58.4#29/147
Professional53.1#58/194
Legal60.7#11/173
Biology research50.6#15/31
Cybersecurity57#16/47
IT operations40.5#26/33
Core abilities51.6#81/199
General intelligence52.4#68/178
Human preference57.8#121/354
Human preference57.8#121/354

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Inkling 2 Small, left for the other.

GPT OSS 20Bwon 9 · lost 0
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 9 · lost 0
Nemotron 3.5 Super VLwon 10 · lost 0
Muse Spark Openwon 10 · lost 0
MiniMax M3.1 Flashwon 10 · lost 0
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 10 · lost 0
GPT-4owon 10 · lost 0
Command Awon 10 · lost 0
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 10 · lost 0
O3 Miniwon 10 · lost 0
MiniMax M2.5won 10 · lost 0
Beam 1.0won 11 · lost 0
GPT-4o miniwon 11 · lost 0
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 11 · lost 0
GPT-4.1 nanowon 12 · lost 0
GPT OSS 120Bwon 12 · lost 0
GPT-4.1 miniwon 12 · lost 0
DeepSeek V3won 12 · lost 0
GPT-5.4 nanowon 12 · lost 0
Inkling Smallwon 13 · lost 0
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 8 · lost 1
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 12 · lost 2
Step 5won 12 · lost 2
Qwen3.8 27Bwon 11 · lost 2
Inklingwon 11 · lost 2
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Litewon 11 · lost 2
Claude Sonnet 4won 10 · lost 2
Mistral Large 3won 10 · lost 2
DeepSeek V3.2won 10 · lost 2
GPT-5.4 miniwon 10 · lost 2
Gemma 4 31Bwon 10 · lost 2
Kimi K2won 9 · lost 2
GLM-4.6won 9 · lost 2
Mistral Medium 3.5won 9 · lost 2
Grok 3 Miniwon 8 · lost 2
Grok 4 Fastwon 8 · lost 2
Grok 3won 8 · lost 2
Claude Haiku 4.5won 8 · lost 2
GLM-4.7won 8 · lost 2
Grok 4.3won 8 · lost 2
Qwen3.6 Pluswon 8 · lost 2
Kimi K2.6won 8 · lost 2
GLM-5.1won 8 · lost 2
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 12 · lost 3
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 11 · lost 3
GPT-5 nanowon 7 · lost 2
MiMo V2.5won 7 · lost 2
MiMo V2.5 Prowon 7 · lost 2
Mistral Large 4won 10 · lost 3
MiniMax M3won 10 · lost 3
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 10 · lost 3
GPT-5 miniwon 9 · lost 3
GLM-5.2won 9 · lost 3
GPT-6 Lunawon 11 · lost 4
Grok 4won 8 · lost 3
GPT-4.1won 8 · lost 3
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 8 · lost 3
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 8 · lost 3
Muse Spark 1.1won 7 · lost 3
Claude Sonnet 5won 9 · lost 4
MiniMax M2.7won 6 · lost 3
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 6 · lost 3
Kimi K2.5won 8 · lost 4
Grok 4.5won 9 · lost 5
O4 Miniwon 7 · lost 4
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Litewon 7 · lost 4
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 8 · lost 5
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 8 · lost 5
GPT-5.1won 6 · lost 4
GLM-5won 6 · lost 4
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 9 · lost 6
GPT-5won 7 · lost 5
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 7 · lost 5
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 7 · lost 5
MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 8 · lost 6
MiMo V2.6 Prowon 8 · lost 6
Qwen3 Maxwon 5 · lost 4
Muse Sparkwon 5 · lost 4
GPT-5.2won 6 · lost 5
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 6 · lost 5
Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 7 · lost 6
GPT-6.1 Terrawon 5 · lost 5
Claude Opus 4won 5 · lost 5
Grok 4.20won 5 · lost 5
DeepSeek R1won 6 · lost 6
GPT-5.4won 6 · lost 6
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 6 · lost 6
Claude Opus 4.7won 6 · lost 6
Kimi K3won 7 · lost 7
Grok 4.7won 7 · lost 8
Muse Spark 1.2won 6 · lost 7
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 6 · lost 8
GLM-5.3won 6 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4.6won 4 · lost 6
O3won 4 · lost 7
Claude Opus 4.5won 4 · lost 7
Kimi K3.1 Prowon 5 · lost 9
Claude Opus 4.8won 4 · lost 8
Claude Haiku 5.5won 5 · lost 10
Grok 4.6won 4 · lost 10
Gemini 3 Prowon 3 · lost 8
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 4 · lost 11
GPT-5.5won 3 · lost 10
GPT-6 Solwon 3 · lost 11
Muse Emberwon 2 · lost 8
GPT-5.6 Solwon 3 · lost 12
Muse Spark 1.3won 2 · lost 11
Muse Wonderwon 2 · lost 12
Claude Sonnet 5.5won 2 · lost 13
GPT-6 Astrawon 2 · lost 13
GPT-6.1 Solwon 2 · lost 13
Claude Opus 5.5won 2 · lost 13
Claude Fable 5.2won 1 · lost 10
Claude Fable 5won 1 · lost 11
Claude Opus 5won 1 · lost 13
Claude Fable 5.1won 1 · lost 13
Gemini 4 Argonwon 1 · lost 14
Muse Wonder Fullwon 0 · lost 12
Gemini 4 Carbonwon 0 · lost 12

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

6 publications, 11 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
LMArena Text 1412
Artificial Analysis ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 31
GDPval-AA ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
GDPval-AA 1630
AA-Briefcase ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
AA-Briefcase 1527
ARC-AGI-2 ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10
ARC-AGI-2 81.7%
Vals.ai ↗6 measuresread 2026-11-10
Vals · Legal Research Bench 46.63%Vals · Harvey Legal Agent Benchmark 21.67%Vals · BioMysteryBench 70%Vals · CyberBench 72.74%Vals · SRE Bench 1.91%Vals · Vibe Code Bench 81.55% (OpenHands)

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