Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Inkling Small

Gemini 3.7 Flash leads Inkling Small on coding, 58.0 to 27.3 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Inkling Small costs 3.1x less per output token ($1.20 vs $3.75 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 78 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Gemini 3.7 Flash Replace Inkling Small

Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle

Coding: 58.0
Overall: 65.7
Output $/M: $3.75

T Inkling SmallThinking Machines

Coding: 27.3
Overall: 43.6
Output $/M: $1.20

vs boards won of 78 shared

Gemini 3.7 Flash or Inkling Small: which to pick

Pick Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding: it scores 58.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 27.3 for Inkling Small.

Pick Inkling Small for output tokens 3.1x cheaper ($1.20 vs $3.75 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.16 against $1.78).

Model AGemini 3.7 FlashGoogle58.0/1006 independent benchmarks$1.78 per solved task Model BInkling SmallThinking Machines27.3/1004 independent benchmarks$0.16 per solved task

78366

Shared results: 78
Gemini 3.7 Flash only: 36
Inkling Small only: 6
Like-for-like categories: 7 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash scores 58.0 against 27.3.
6 and 4 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash leads, 39.6 against 25.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Inkling Small has a AA Agentic Index result, 23.5.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash leads, 93.9% against 83.6%.
Same board, both measured
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash leads, 90.1% against 85.6%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Gemini 3.7 Flash has a Design Arena: websites result, 1303.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Inkling Small has a Vals Index result, 27.6%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash takes 1.05M tokens against 524K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Inkling Small
Gemini 3.7 Flash $0.0026, Inkling Small $0.0010 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
Inkling Small
Gemini 3.7 Flash $1.78, Inkling Small $0.16.
Published attempt cost and pass rate

At a glance

Coding index: Gemini 3.7 Flash 58.0 from 6 benchmarks, Inkling Small 27.3 from 4 benchmarks.
Widest category: Coding, 21.9 points apart on average over 18 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap: IOI (Vals AI): Gemini 3.7 Flash 67.8% against Inkling Small 9.3%, 58.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price: Gemini 3.7 Flash $3.75 against Inkling Small $1.20 per million output tokens, 3.1x apart.
Context window: Gemini 3.7 Flash takes 1.05M tokens, Inkling Small 524K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
Category	Gemini 3.7 Flash	Inkling Small
Coding	15	3
Intelligence	2	0
Agentic work	4	0
Reasoning	12	0
Math	6	0
Knowledge	9	1
General	25	1
All shared boards	73	5

CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index153

Coding benchmarks for Gemini 3.7 Flash and Inkling Small
Benchmark	Gemini 3.7 Flash	Inkling Small	Leader
LiveBench coding	80.5%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
LMArena WebDev	1591	1409	Gemini 3.7 Flash
AA Coding Index	71.5	52.9	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)	88.7%	85.9%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)	80.8%	82.2%	Inkling Small
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)	12.1%	0.0%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)	70.4%	19.1%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
Code migration (Vals AI)	34.8%	13.7%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
ProgramBench (Vals AI)	0.0%	0.5%	Inkling Small
IOI (Vals AI)	67.8%	9.3%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)	77.5%	55.1%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
SkillsBench (Vals AI)	65.9%	33.6%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
CyberBench (Vals AI)	43.8%	64.1%	Inkling Small
SciCode	59.8%	49.7%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
FrontierCode	43.6%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
FrontierSWE	20.3%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
ALE-Bench	904.3	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
LMArena Text: coding	1499	1450	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: software and IT	1498	1447	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena WebDev: React	1587	1399	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena WebDev: HTML	1593	1398	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena WebDev: from an image	1599	1410	Gemini 3.7 Flash
SciCode	13.8%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here

IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20

Intelligence benchmarks for Gemini 3.7 Flash and Inkling Small
Benchmark	Gemini 3.7 Flash	Inkling Small	Leader
AA Intelligence Index	39.6	25.7	Gemini 3.7 Flash
Epoch Capabilities Index	158.0	150.3	Gemini 3.7 Flash

Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40

Agentic work benchmarks for Gemini 3.7 Flash and Inkling Small
Benchmark	Gemini 3.7 Flash	Inkling Small	Leader
AA Agentic Index	Not measured	23.5	Only Inkling Small measured
Design Arena: agents building web apps	1223	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps	1208	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps	1229	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps	1243	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games	1264	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Design Arena: agents building games	1235	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Design Arena: spreadsheets	1058	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
LiveBench research	76.5%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
LiveBench browser	56.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
LiveBench long agentic	28.3%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
SREBench (Vals AI)	4.6%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)	59.0%	41.3%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)	22.8%	15.4%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)	34.6%	25.5%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)	Not measured	2.9%	Only Inkling Small measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)	71.3%	31.8%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)	7.1%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
APEX-Agents	67.8%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Remote Labor Index	5.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here

ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index120

Reasoning benchmarks for Gemini 3.7 Flash and Inkling Small
Benchmark	Gemini 3.7 Flash	Inkling Small	Leader
GPQA Diamond	93.9%	83.6%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LiveBench reasoning	87.8%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)	89.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)	94.5%	89.5%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)	47.9%	33.3%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)	94.8%	88.5%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
ARC-AGI	95.5%	84.0%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
ARC-AGI-2	84.6%	40.1%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
Chess puzzles	66.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Mystery game puzzles	37.0%	6.0%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: hard prompts	1495	1423	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: expert	1512	1441	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English	1487	1429	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision: diagrams	1329	1251	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision: homework	1320	1257	Gemini 3.7 Flash
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here

MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60

Math benchmarks for Gemini 3.7 Flash and Inkling Small
Benchmark	Gemini 3.7 Flash	Inkling Small	Leader
OTIS Mock AIME	97.2%	90.0%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3	71.6%	46.3%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
FrontierMath, tier 4	36.6%	17.1%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
ProofBench	58.0%	6.0%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: math	1511	1459	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: mathematical work	1502	1441	Gemini 3.7 Flash
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here

KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index91

Knowledge benchmarks for Gemini 3.7 Flash and Inkling Small
Benchmark	Gemini 3.7 Flash	Inkling Small	Leader
MMLU Pro	90.1%	85.6%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LegalBench (Vals AI)	87.3%	83.0%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
CorpFin (Vals AI)	Not measured	69.6%	Only Inkling Small measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)	74.7%	75.5%	Inkling Small
MortgageTax (Vals AI)	66.7%	62.3%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
MedCode (Vals AI)	53.4%	37.9%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
SimpleQA Verified	69.2%	19.1%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: science	1511	1428	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare	1494	1413	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: legal and government	1496	1415	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: business and finance	1479	1413	Gemini 3.7 Flash
FACTS Benchmark Suite	71.2%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here

Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared

Web design benchmarks for Gemini 3.7 Flash and Inkling Small
Benchmark	Gemini 3.7 Flash	Inkling Small	Leader
Design Arena: websites	1303	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Design Arena: UI components	1296	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Design Arena: game dev	1317	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Design Arena: data viz	1315	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Design Arena: 3D	1307	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Design Arena: all code categories	1308	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Design Arena: SVG	1283	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Design Arena: ASCII art	1276	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
LiveBench design	73.2%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured

GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index251

General benchmarks for Gemini 3.7 Flash and Inkling Small
Benchmark	Gemini 3.7 Flash	Inkling Small	Leader
Vals Index	Not measured	27.6%	Only Inkling Small measured
LiveBench data analysis	68.0%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)	Not measured	59.4%	Only Inkling Small measured
SAGE (Vals AI)	49.2%	32.7%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
MedScribe (Vals AI)	83.9%	84.1%	Inkling Small
Vals Multimodal Index	Not measured	50.0%	Only Inkling Small measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)	83.0%	75.7%	Gemini 3.7 Flash
DTBench	96.8%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
LMCA	50.4%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
Furniture assembly	26.7%	Not measured	Only Gemini 3.7 Flash measured
LMArena Text	1489	1413	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: instruction following	1484	1399	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: creative writing	1488	1334	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision	1314	1237	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: English	1483	1421	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: non-English	1487	1401	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: Chinese	1552	1464	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: German	1506	1408	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: Japanese	1511	1401	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: Korean	1481	1367	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: French	1500	1435	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: Spanish	1495	1422	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: Russian	1515	1394	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: Polish	1503	1428	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: multi-turn	1485	1416	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: longer queries	1492	1402	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: writing and language	1491	1357	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text: entertainment and media	1477	1352	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision: English	1309	1243	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision: Chinese	1394	1292	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision: reading text	1322	1243	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision: humor	1299	1207	Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision: creative writing	1312	1205	Gemini 3.7 Flash
Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here

Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared

Image generation benchmarks for Gemini 3.7 Flash and Inkling Small
Benchmark	Gemini 3.7 Flash	Inkling Small	Leader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Gemini 3.7 Flash$0.0026Fits in one request

Inkling Small$0.0010Fits in one request

Inkling Small costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Gemini 3.7 Flash$0.049Fits in one request

Inkling Small$0.026Fits in one request

Inkling Small costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Gemini 3.7 Flash$0.188Fits in one request

Inkling Small$0.102Fits in one request

Inkling Small costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Gemini 3.7 Flash and Inkling Small
Specification	Google Gemini 3.7 Flash	Thinking Machines Inkling Small
Maker	Google	Thinking Machines
Weights	No public weights listed	Open weights
Released	August 13, 2026	July 30, 2026
Context window	1.05M	524K
Input $/Mtok	$0.75	$0.45
Output $/Mtok	$3.75	$1.20
Coding index	58.0	27.3
Independent measurements behind it	6	4
Cost per solved task	$1.78	$0.16
Source	OpenRouter listing	OpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Gemini 3.7 Flash better than Inkling Small for coding?

Pick Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding: it scores 58.0 on the Vibe Coding Index against 27.3 for Inkling Small. Pick Inkling Small for output tokens 3.1x cheaper ($1.20 vs $3.75 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.16 against $1.78).

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.7 Flash or Inkling Small?

Gemini 3.7 Flash costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; Inkling Small costs $0.45 and $1.20. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Gemini 3.7 Flash costs $1.78 and Inkling Small $0.16.

Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3.7 Flash or Inkling Small?

Gemini 3.7 Flash, with 1.05M tokens against 524K.

How many benchmarks is the Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Inkling Small comparison based on?

78 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Gemini 3.7 Flash's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and Inkling Small's on 4. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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Gemini 3.7 Flash or Inkling Small: which to pick

Which one for your work

Coding

Intelligence

Agentic work

Reasoning

Knowledge

Web design

General

Long documents

Everyday cost

Cost per solved task

At a glance

Benchmark by benchmark

What each workload costs

Chat turn

Repository review

Agent loop

Specification differences

Questions

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