Thinking MachinesUnited States· released Jul 2026

Inkling Small

Name: Inkling Small
Author: Thinking Machines

Provisional: 13 comparable tests so far. Ranked once it reaches 6 across 3 counting categories.

Thinking Machines, United States. One of 2 models from this lab on the Index.

Third-party publishedLow confidence (thin coverage)

Snapshot September 8, 2026

OpenCharts Index

50.8

Provisional: not enough comparable tests or counting categories to rank yet · 13 comparable tests · 2 counting categories

Drop any single test and the Index lands between 42.6 and 56.6.

Needs more results (3 of 8 so far)

Averaging 36.4 on the 3 it has; the score opens at 4 of 8.

Distance to today's frontier on the hardest tests. Not a measure of intelligence.

What it's known for

Inkling Small, in 13 results.

Strongest in reasoning (60.8) and math (40.7). It trails the frontier most in math, 59.3% behind on average. No comparable results yet in agentic and long context. Between 40% and 50% behind the best published results, on average.

Strongest category

Reasoning

Hard, novel problems: graduate science, abstract puzzles, expert exams.

60.8

GPQA Diamond88.5% · 90% of best
ARC-AGI-184.0% · 85% of best
ARC-AGI-240.1% · 42% of best
CritPt8.3% · 26% of best

Mean of 4 of the category's 6 comparable tests. Counts toward the Index.

Best single result

Mock AIME 2024–2025

Solve competition mathematics problems that have a single exact integer answer.

90.0%

90.0% of the best (100.0%) · #40 of 78.

Olympiad-style problems need long, careful chains of reasoning, and there is no partial credit.

Where it trails

ProofBench

Write a complete, rigorous proof, graded for rigor rather than for a final answer.

6.0%

94.0% behind the best published result (100.0%) · #54 of 61.

A proof shows the reasoning itself. A right answer with a wrong argument scores nothing.

Not measured yet

No comparable result yet in these 2 categories. A blank is a blank, never a zero, and it does not lower the Index.

Agentic
Long context

Covered, but not averaged into the Index:

Knowledgesingle-test category, shown beside the Index · 25.3
Coding2 of 7 tests · needs 4 · mean 48.8
Multimodalsingle-test category, shown beside the Index · 70.3
Human preferencesingle-test category, shown beside the Index · 71.9

Every score, with its source

See it at work

What Inkling Small was asked to do, and how it did.

Every test it has taken, by category, with the kind of task it faced, who produced the number and where the result landed against the best published one. The examples are original and illustrative, never items from the datasets themselves.

Human preference · mean 71.9 across 1 comparable test · a single-test category, shown beside the Index and never averaged into it

Text ArenaLeaderboard

Answer the same prompt as a rival model; real users vote blind on which answer they prefer.

1,407

36% expected win rate against the board leader (1,507)
#82 of 92

board 2026-09-02

Source: Arena

Every result is read against the best published one on its test: percent scores as a share of the best above chance, Arena ratings as the expected win rate against the board leader, open-ended values on a log scale. Sitting a harder exam never lowers a model. Every number links to the publisher that produced it.

Head to head

Inkling Small against whoever you pick.

Choose a rival. Every counted test both have taken appears side by side as a share of the best published result on that test, with the category means above. A win is a higher share; a gap under 2 points is a tie, because one item on a 45-problem exam is 2.2 points and publishers' own standard errors are of that order.

Inkling Small

provisional·Index 50.8C-

0 : 11

wins · 0 ties · 11 shared

GPT-6 Astra

#1·Index 99.0A+

GPT-6 Astra comes out ahead on 11 of the 11 tests both have taken.

Category means

Reasoning
60.8
99.6
Knowledge
25.3
100.0
Coding
48.8
97.7
Math
40.7
99.8
Agentic
—
98.5
Multimodal
70.3
—
Human preference
71.9
—

Shared tests · biggest gaps first

ProofBenchMath
6.0%
99.0%
−93.0
FrontierMath Tier 4Math
17.1%
97.6%
−82.5
Code Arena (WebDev)Coding
1,405
1,797
−81.0
SimpleQA VerifiedKnowledge
19.1%
75.6%
−74.7
CritPtReasoning
8.3%
31.7%
−72.5
ARC-AGI-2Reasoning
40.1%
95.0%
−57.7
FrontierMath (Tiers 1–3)Math
46.3%
93.7%
−50.6
ARC-AGI-1Reasoning
84.0%
98.5%
−14.7
SciCodeCoding
48.7%
56.5%
−12.5
GPQA DiamondReasoning
88.5%
95.8%
−10.3
Mock AIME 2024–2025Math
90.0%
100.0%
−10.0

Bars are distances to the best published result on each test (percent scores above chance, Arena ratings as win rate against the leader, open-ended values on a log scale). Raw values as the publishers report them.

Open GPT-6 Astra

Scores

Every test, every source

The best published run per benchmark, the raw value as the publisher reports it, who produced the number, how close it comes to the best published result on that test, and where the model sits among every model scored on it. Percent scores are read above chance, Arena ratings as a win rate against the board leader, open-ended values on a log scale. A test with too few models to compare against is shown but not counted.

Category means

Reasoning60.8 · 4/6
Knowledgebeside25.3 · 1/1
Coding48.8 · 2/7
Math40.7 · 4/5
Agentic—
Multimodalbeside70.3 · 1/1
Human preferencebeside71.9 · 1/1
Long context—

Mean · tests taken of the category's comparable tests. A faded category either rests on fewer than half of them or is a single-test category (marked “beside”), which is shown next to the Index and never averaged into it.

GPQA DiamondEpoch-runReasoning

88.5%

89.7% of the best (95.8%), above chance
55th percentile of 78 · n = 198

xhigh

Source: Epoch AI — AI Benchmarking Hub

ARC-AGI-2LeaderboardReasoning

40.1%

42.3% of the best (95.0%)
44th percentile of 51 · n = 120

xhigh

Source: Epoch AI — AI Benchmarking Hub

ARC-AGI-1LeaderboardReasoning

84.0%