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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Inkling Small

Inkling Small leads Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 25.7 to 9.9, and Inkling Small costs 1.6x less per output token ($1.20 vs $1.90 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 40 benchmarks have a result for both.

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Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$1.90
28
T Inkling SmallThinking Machines
Coding
27.3
Overall
43.6
Output $/M
$1.20
12
vs boards won of 40 shared

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct or Inkling Small: which to pick

Only Inkling Small has a coding score, 27.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct for work measured by LMArena Text: hard prompts or LMArena Text: expert, where it leads.

Model AQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BInkling SmallThinking Machines27.3/1004 independent benchmarks$0.16 per solved task
Shared results
40
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct only
9
Inkling Small only
44
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
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct not benchmarked, Inkling Small 27.3 from 4 benchmarks.
Widest category
Intelligence, 15.8 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
Widest single gap
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run): Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct 11.9% against Inkling Small 33.3%, 21.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct $1.90 against Inkling Small $1.20 per million output tokens, 1.6x apart.
Context window
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct takes 262K 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
CategoryQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructBarsInkling SmallTies
Coding02
Intelligence01
Reasoning52
Math02
Knowledge40
General195
All shared boards2812
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index02
Coding benchmarks for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and Inkling Small
BenchmarkQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructInkling SmallLeader
LMArena WebDevNot measured1409Only Inkling Small measured
AA Coding IndexNot measured52.9Only Inkling Small measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)Not measured85.9%Only Inkling Small measured
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)64.6%Not measuredOnly Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
SciCodeNot measured49.7%Only Inkling Small measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)11.4%Not measuredOnly Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
LMArena Text: coding14381450Inkling Small
LMArena Text: software and IT14421447Inkling Small
LMArena WebDev: ReactNot measured1399Only Inkling Small measured
LMArena WebDev: HTMLNot measured1398Only Inkling Small measured
LMArena WebDev: from an imageNot measured1410Only Inkling Small measured
Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Intelligence benchmarks for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and Inkling Small
BenchmarkQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructInkling SmallLeader
AA Intelligence Index9.925.7Inkling Small
Epoch Capabilities IndexNot measured150.3Only Inkling Small measured
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
Agentic work benchmarks for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and Inkling Small
BenchmarkQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructInkling 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 Telecom54.1%Not measuredOnly Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
Neither model has a result on the other 34 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index52
Reasoning benchmarks for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and Inkling Small
BenchmarkQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructInkling SmallLeader
GPQA DiamondNot measured83.6%Only Inkling Small measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)77.2%89.5%Inkling Small
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)11.9%33.3%Inkling Small
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)Not measured88.5%Only Inkling Small measured
ARC-AGINot measured84.0%Only Inkling Small measured
ARC-AGI-2Not measured40.1%Only Inkling Small measured
Mystery game puzzlesNot measured6.0%Only Inkling Small measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14281423Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: expert14421441Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14391429Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Vision: diagrams12551251Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Vision: homework12771257Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Math benchmarks for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and Inkling Small
BenchmarkQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructInkling SmallLeader
AA Math Index88.3Not measuredOnly Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)88.3%Not measuredOnly Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
OTIS Mock AIMENot measured90.0%Only Inkling Small measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured46.3%Only Inkling Small measured
FrontierMath, tier 4Not measured17.1%Only Inkling Small measured
ProofBenchNot measured6.0%Only Inkling Small measured
LMArena Text: math14251459Inkling Small
LMArena Text: mathematical work14191441Inkling Small
Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Knowledge benchmarks for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and Inkling Small
BenchmarkQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructInkling SmallLeader
MMLU ProNot measured85.6%Only Inkling Small measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)Not measured83.0%Only Inkling Small measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)Not measured69.6%Only Inkling Small measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)Not measured75.5%Only Inkling Small measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured62.3%Only Inkling Small measured
MedCode (Vals AI)Not measured37.9%Only Inkling Small measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)83.6%Not measuredOnly Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
SimpleQA VerifiedNot measured19.1%Only Inkling Small measured
LMArena Text: science14441428Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14311413Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: legal and government14381415Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: business and finance14331413Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and Inkling Small
BenchmarkQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructInkling SmallLeader
Neither model has a result on 9 boards here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index195
General benchmarks for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and Inkling Small
BenchmarkQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructInkling 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
IFBench56.5%Not measuredOnly Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)63.7%75.7%Inkling Small
LMArena Text14201413Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: instruction following14061399Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: creative writing13661334Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Vision12471237Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: English14291421Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: non-English14051401Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: Chinese14631464Inkling Small
LMArena Text: German14241408Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: Japanese13851401Inkling Small
LMArena Text: Korean13941367Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: French14521435Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: Spanish14281422Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: Russian14081394Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: Polish14191428Inkling Small
LMArena Text: multi-turn14281416Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: longer queries14191402Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: writing and language13921357Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13681352Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Vision: English12561243Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Vision: Chinese12831292Inkling Small
LMArena Vision: reading text12531243Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Vision: humor12091207Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Vision: captioning1281Not measuredOnly Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1249Not measuredOnly Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing12201205Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and Inkling Small
BenchmarkQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructInkling 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

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct$0.0012Fits in one request
Inkling Small$0.0010Fits in one request

Inkling Small costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct$0.016Fits in one request
Inkling Small$0.026Fits in one request

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct$0.061Fits in one request
Inkling Small$0.102Fits in one request

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct 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 Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct and Inkling Small
SpecificationQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructThinking Machines Inkling Small
MakerQwenThinking Machines
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedSeptember 23, 2025July 30, 2026
Context window262K524K
Input $/Mtok$0.21$0.45
Output $/Mtok$1.90$1.20
Coding indexNot benchmarked27.3
Independent measurements behind it04
Cost per solved taskNot computable$0.16
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct better than Inkling Small for coding?

Only Inkling Small has a coding score, 27.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct for work measured by LMArena Text: hard prompts or LMArena Text: expert, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct or Inkling Small?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct costs $0.21 per million input tokens and $1.90 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, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct or Inkling Small?

Inkling Small, with 524K tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks is the Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct vs Inkling Small comparison based on?

40 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct'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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