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o1 vs Inkling Small

Inkling Small leads o1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 25.7 to 15.2, and Inkling Small costs 50.0x less per output token ($1.20 vs $60.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 46 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace o1 Replace Inkling Small
o1OpenAI
Coding
No data
Overall
44.6
Output $/M
$60.00
5
T Inkling SmallThinking Machines
Coding
27.3
Overall
43.6
Output $/M
$1.20
41
vs boards won of 46 shared

o1 or Inkling Small: which to pick

Only Inkling Small has a coding score, 27.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; o1 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick o1 for work measured by SimpleQA Verified or LMArena Text: creative writing, where it leads.

Model Ao1OpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BInkling SmallThinking Machines27.3/1004 independent benchmarks$0.16 per solved task
Shared results
46
o1 only
23
Inkling Small only
38
Like-for-like categories
6 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
o1 not benchmarked, Inkling Small 27.3 from 4 benchmarks.
Widest category
Coding, 19.1 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
ARC-AGI: o1 30.7% against Inkling Small 84.0%, 53.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
o1 $60.00 against Inkling Small $1.20 per million output tokens, 50.0x apart.
Context window
o1 takes 200K 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
Categoryo1BarsInkling SmallTies
Coding04
Intelligence02
Reasoning08
Math04
Knowledge17
General416
All shared boards541
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index04
Coding benchmarks for o1 and Inkling Small
Benchmarko1Inkling SmallLeader
Aider polyglot61.7%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
LMArena WebDevNot measured1409Only Inkling Small measured
AA Coding Index39.752.9Inkling Small
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)50.3%85.9%Inkling Small
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured82.2%Only Inkling Small measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)Not measured0.0%Only Inkling Small measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)Not measured19.1%Only Inkling Small measured
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured13.7%Only Inkling Small measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)Not measured0.5%Only Inkling Small measured
IOI (Vals AI)Not measured9.3%Only Inkling Small measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Not measured55.1%Only Inkling Small measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)Not measured33.6%Only Inkling Small measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)Not measured64.1%Only Inkling Small measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)67.9%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
SciCodeNot measured49.7%Only Inkling Small measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)12.9%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
WeirdML46.1%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
LMArena Text: coding13671450Inkling Small
LMArena Text: software and IT13661447Inkling Small
LMArena WebDev: ReactNot measured1399Only Inkling Small measured
LMArena WebDev: HTMLNot measured1398Only Inkling Small measured
LMArena WebDev: from an imageNot measured1410Only Inkling Small measured
SciCode4.6%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Intelligence benchmarks for o1 and Inkling Small
Benchmarko1Inkling SmallLeader
AA Intelligence Index15.225.7Inkling Small
Epoch Capabilities Index141.7150.3Inkling Small
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
Agentic work benchmarks for o1 and Inkling Small
Benchmarko1Inkling SmallLeader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured23.5Only Inkling Small measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured41.3%Only Inkling Small measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured15.4%Only Inkling Small measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Not measured25.5%Only Inkling Small measured
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured2.9%Only Inkling Small measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured31.8%Only Inkling Small measured
τ²-Bench Telecom62.6%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
METR time horizons51.1%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 33 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index08
Reasoning benchmarks for o1 and Inkling Small
Benchmarko1Inkling SmallLeader
GPQA Diamond73.2%83.6%Inkling Small
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)77.4%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)74.7%89.5%Inkling Small
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)7.0%33.3%Inkling Small
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)76.8%88.5%Inkling Small
ARC-AGI30.7%84.0%Inkling Small
ARC-AGI-2Not measured40.1%Only Inkling Small measured
SimpleBench40.1%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
Chess puzzles10.0%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
Mystery game puzzlesNot measured6.0%Only Inkling Small measured
VPCT37.0%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts13711423Inkling Small
LMArena Text: expert13611441Inkling Small
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13721429Inkling Small
LMArena Vision: diagramsNot measured1251Only Inkling Small measured
LMArena Vision: homeworkNot measured1257Only Inkling Small measured
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Math benchmarks for o1 and Inkling Small
Benchmarko1Inkling SmallLeader
AIME71.5%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
MATH 500 (Vals AI)90.4%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
MGSM (Vals AI)89.3%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
OTIS Mock AIME73.3%90.0%Inkling Small
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 314.7%46.3%Inkling Small
FrontierMath, tier 4Not measured17.1%Only Inkling Small measured
ProofBenchNot measured6.0%Only Inkling Small measured
MATH level 594.7%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
LMArena Text: math13881459Inkling Small
LMArena Text: mathematical work13901441Inkling Small
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index17
Knowledge benchmarks for o1 and Inkling Small
Benchmarko1Inkling SmallLeader
MMLU Pro83.5%85.6%Inkling Small
LegalBench (Vals AI)80.4%83.0%Inkling Small
CorpFin (Vals AI)Not measured69.6%Only Inkling Small measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)74.3%75.5%Inkling Small
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured62.3%Only Inkling Small measured
MedQA (Vals AI)96.5%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)Not measured37.9%Only Inkling Small measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)84.1%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
SimpleQA Verified41.1%19.1%o1
GeoBench80.0%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
LMArena Text: science13691428Inkling Small
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13551413Inkling Small
LMArena Text: legal and government13681415Inkling Small
LMArena Text: business and finance13281413Inkling Small
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
Web designNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for o1 and Inkling Small
Benchmarko1Inkling SmallLeader
Neither model has a result on 9 boards here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index416
General benchmarks for o1 and Inkling Small
Benchmarko1Inkling SmallLeader
Vals IndexNot measured27.6%Only Inkling Small measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)Not measured59.4%Only Inkling Small measured
SAGE (Vals AI)Not measured32.7%Only Inkling Small measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)Not measured84.1%Only Inkling Small measured
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured50.0%Only Inkling Small measured
IFBench70.3%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)65.0%75.7%Inkling Small
DTBench74.7%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
LMCA22.3%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
Creative writing (Lech Mazur)70.2%Not measuredOnly o1 measured
LMArena Text13661413Inkling Small
LMArena Text: instruction following13671399Inkling Small
LMArena Text: creative writing13471334o1
LMArena Vision11681237Inkling Small
LMArena Text: English13721421Inkling Small
LMArena Text: non-English13581401Inkling Small
LMArena Text: Chinese13941464Inkling Small
LMArena Text: German13371408Inkling Small
LMArena Text: Japanese13461401Inkling Small
LMArena Text: Korean13961367o1
LMArena Text: French13441435Inkling Small
LMArena Text: Spanish13451422Inkling Small
LMArena Text: Russian13561394Inkling Small
LMArena Text: PolishNot measured1428Only Inkling Small measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn13551416Inkling Small
LMArena Text: longer queries13781402Inkling Small
LMArena Text: writing and language13601357o1
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13581352o1
LMArena Vision: English11621243Inkling Small
LMArena Vision: Chinese12351292Inkling Small
LMArena Vision: reading textNot measured1243Only Inkling Small measured
LMArena Vision: humorNot measured1207Only Inkling Small measured
LMArena Vision: creative writingNot measured1205Only Inkling Small 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 o1 and Inkling Small
Benchmarko1Inkling 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

o1$0.045Fits in one request
Inkling Small$0.0010Fits in one request

Inkling Small costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

o1$0.930Fits in one request
Inkling Small$0.026Fits in one request

Inkling Small costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

o1$3.60Exceeds the context window
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 o1 and Inkling Small
SpecificationOpenAI o1Thinking Machines Inkling Small
MakerOpenAIThinking Machines
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedDecember 17, 2024July 30, 2026
Context window200K524K
Input $/Mtok$15.00$0.45
Output $/Mtok$60.00$1.20
Coding indexNot benchmarked27.3
Independent measurements behind it04
Cost per solved taskNot computable$0.16
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is o1 better than Inkling Small for coding?

Only Inkling Small has a coding score, 27.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; o1 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick o1 for work measured by SimpleQA Verified or LMArena Text: creative writing, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, o1 or Inkling Small?

o1 costs $15.00 per million input tokens and $60.00 per million output tokens; Inkling Small costs $0.45 and $1.20. Cost per solved task is known for Inkling Small only.

Which has the bigger context window, o1 or Inkling Small?

Inkling Small, with 524K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks is the o1 vs Inkling Small comparison based on?

46 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. o1's coding index rests on 0 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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