Enter opens the highlighted result. Esc closes.

Grok 4.6 vs Inkling Small

Grok 4.6 leads Inkling Small on coding, 65.7 to 27.3 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Inkling Small costs 5.0x less per output token ($1.20 vs $6.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 81 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Grok 4.6 Replace Inkling Small
Grok 4.6xAI
Coding
65.7
Overall
67.4
Output $/M
$6.00
74
T Inkling SmallThinking Machines
Coding
27.3
Overall
43.6
Output $/M
$1.20
7
vs boards won of 81 shared

Grok 4.6 or Inkling Small: which to pick

Pick Grok 4.6 for coding: it scores 65.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 27.3 for Inkling Small.

Pick Inkling Small for output tokens 5.0x cheaper ($1.20 vs $6.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.16 against $0.82).

Model AGrok 4.6xAI65.7/1006 independent benchmarks$0.82 per solved taskModel BInkling SmallThinking Machines27.3/1004 independent benchmarks$0.16 per solved task
Shared results
81
Grok 4.6 only
42
Inkling Small only
3
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.

At a glance

Coding index
Grok 4.6 65.7 from 6 benchmarks, Inkling Small 27.3 from 4 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 22.6 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): Grok 4.6 76.2% against Inkling Small 19.1%, 57.2 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Grok 4.6 $6.00 against Inkling Small $1.20 per million output tokens, 5.0x apart.
Context window
Grok 4.6 takes 500K 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
CategoryGrok 4.6BarsInkling SmallTies
Coding180
Intelligence20
Agentic work50
Reasoning120
Math51
Knowledge92
General234
All shared boards747
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index180
Coding benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Inkling Small
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Inkling SmallLeader
LiveBench coding89.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena WebDev16171409Grok 4.6
AA Coding Index76.852.9Grok 4.6
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)88.2%85.9%Grok 4.6
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)95.6%82.2%Grok 4.6
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)17.2%0.0%Grok 4.6
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)76.2%19.1%Grok 4.6
Code migration (Vals AI)44.6%13.7%Grok 4.6
ProgramBench (Vals AI)1.0%0.5%Grok 4.6
IOI (Vals AI)47.6%9.3%Grok 4.6
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)78.3%55.1%Grok 4.6
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)14.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)55.8%33.6%Grok 4.6
CyberBench (Vals AI)67.7%64.1%Grok 4.6
SciCode56.5%49.7%Grok 4.6
FrontierCode48.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
FrontierSWE25.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
WeirdML67.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
ALE-Bench1508.1Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: coding14661450Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: software and IT14571447Grok 4.6
LMArena WebDev: React16311399Grok 4.6
LMArena WebDev: HTML15971398Grok 4.6
LMArena WebDev: from an image16031410Grok 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Inkling Small
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Inkling SmallLeader
AA Intelligence Index44.325.7Grok 4.6
Epoch Capabilities Index156.6150.3Grok 4.6
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Agentic work benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Inkling Small
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Inkling SmallLeader
AA Agentic Index53.023.5Grok 4.6
Design Arena: agents building web apps1248Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1264Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1236Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1297Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1276Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building games1208Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: HTML slides1249Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides1241Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LiveBench research84.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LiveBench browser64.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LiveBench long agentic40.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)53.7%41.3%Grok 4.6
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)33.1%15.4%Grok 4.6
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)48.1%25.5%Grok 4.6
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured2.9%Only Inkling Small measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)62.7%31.8%Grok 4.6
BioMysteryBench (Vals AI)72.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)11.4%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Vals Science Index38.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Time Horizon Index (Vals AI)5.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
APEX-Agents65.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Vending-Bench 2$9,047Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index120
Reasoning benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Inkling Small
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Inkling SmallLeader
GPQA Diamond94.7%83.6%Grok 4.6
LiveBench reasoning91.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
MysteryMechanism (Vals AI)30.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)94.9%89.5%Grok 4.6
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)44.1%33.3%Grok 4.6
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)94.0%88.5%Grok 4.6
ARC-AGI87.5%84.0%Grok 4.6
ARC-AGI-267.1%40.1%Grok 4.6
SimpleBench75.9%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Chess puzzles33.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Mystery game puzzles34.0%6.0%Grok 4.6
EBR-bench30.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14481423Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: expert14691441Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14451429Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: diagrams12851251Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: homework12831257Grok 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index51
Math benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Inkling Small
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Inkling SmallLeader
OTIS Mock AIME99.2%90.0%Grok 4.6
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 366.0%46.3%Grok 4.6
FrontierMath, tier 431.7%17.1%Grok 4.6
ProofBench51.0%6.0%Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: math14171459Inkling Small
LMArena Text: mathematical work14641441Grok 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index92
Knowledge benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Inkling Small
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Inkling SmallLeader
MMLU Pro89.4%85.6%Grok 4.6
LegalBench (Vals AI)86.3%83.0%Grok 4.6
CorpFin (Vals AI)66.2%69.6%Inkling Small
TaxEval (Vals AI)71.1%75.5%Inkling Small
MortgageTax (Vals AI)64.2%62.3%Grok 4.6
MedCode (Vals AI)44.7%37.9%Grok 4.6
SimpleQA Verified49.3%19.1%Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: science14371428Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14201413Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: legal and government14291415Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: business and finance14161413Grok 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Inkling Small
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Inkling SmallLeader
Design Arena: websites1289Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: UI components1295Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: game dev1296Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: data viz1282Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: 3D1277Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: all code categories1292Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: SVG1239Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: ASCII art1278Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LiveBench design79.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index234
General benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Inkling Small
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Inkling SmallLeader
Vals IndexNot measured27.6%Only Inkling Small measured
LiveBench data analysis75.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)66.8%59.4%Grok 4.6
SAGE (Vals AI)28.9%32.7%Inkling Small
MedScribe (Vals AI)86.5%84.1%Grok 4.6
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured50.0%Only Inkling Small measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)81.0%75.7%Grok 4.6
DTBench97.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMCA48.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Furniture assembly40.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Text14291413Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: instruction following14311399Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: creative writing14261334Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision12631237Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: English14331421Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: non-English14201401Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: Chinese14761464Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: German14261408Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: Japanese13781401Inkling Small
LMArena Text: Korean13911367Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: French14551435Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: Spanish14141422Inkling Small
LMArena Text: Russian14211394Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: Polish14301428Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: multi-turn14251416Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: longer queries14561402Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: writing and language14291357Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14211352Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: English12701243Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: Chinese12891292Inkling Small
LMArena Vision: reading text12721243Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: humor12701207Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: creative writing12621205Grok 4.6
LMArena Document1452Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Inkling Small
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Inkling SmallLeader
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

Grok 4.6$0.0050Fits in one request
Inkling Small$0.0010Fits in one request

Inkling Small costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Grok 4.6$0.118Fits in one request
Inkling Small$0.026Fits in one request

Inkling Small costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Grok 4.6$0.460Fits 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 Grok 4.6 and Inkling Small
SpecificationSpaceXAI Grok 4.6Thinking Machines Inkling Small
MakerxAIThinking Machines
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedAugust 12, 2026July 30, 2026
Context window500K524K
Input $/Mtok$2.00$0.45
Output $/Mtok$6.00$1.20
Coding index65.727.3
Independent measurements behind it64
Cost per solved task$0.82$0.16
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Grok 4.6 better than Inkling Small for coding?

Pick Grok 4.6 for coding: it scores 65.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 27.3 for Inkling Small. Pick Inkling Small for output tokens 5.0x cheaper ($1.20 vs $6.00 per million) and a lower cost per solved task ($0.16 against $0.82).

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.6 or Inkling Small?

Grok 4.6 costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens; Inkling Small costs $0.45 and $1.20. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Grok 4.6 costs $0.82 and Inkling Small $0.16.

Which has the bigger context window, Grok 4.6 or Inkling Small?

Inkling Small, with 524K tokens against 500K.

How many benchmarks is the Grok 4.6 vs Inkling Small comparison based on?

81 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Grok 4.6'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.

Compare next

Embed this comparison on your site

Free under CC BY 4.0, while the source link stays visible. Preview the frame · Terms and other embeds

<iframe src="https://llmbenchmark.ai/embed/compare/grok-4-6-vs-thinkingmachines-inkling-small" title="Grok 4.6 vs Inkling Small, LLMBenchmark.ai" width="100%" height="360" style="border:0;max-width:100%" loading="lazy"></iframe>
<p style="font:13px/1.4 sans-serif;margin:6px 0 0">Source: <a href="https://llmbenchmark.ai/compare/grok-4-6-vs-thinkingmachines-inkling-small">LLMBenchmark.ai, Grok 4.6 vs Inkling Small</a></p>