Ripple 65B Preview vs Inkling Small
Ripple 65B Preview costs 2.0x less per output token than Inkling Small ($0.60 vs $1.20 per million). Updated November 14, 2026; no benchmark has tested both models yet.
- Coding
- No data
- Overall
- No data
- Output $/M
- $0.60
- Coding
- 27.3
- Overall
- 40.9
- Output $/M
- $1.20
Ripple 65B Preview or Inkling Small: which to pick
Only Inkling Small has a coding score, 27.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Ripple 65B Preview has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Ripple 65B Preview for output tokens 2.0x cheaper ($0.60 vs $1.20 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 524K tokens).
No benchmark has tested both yet. Ripple 65B Preview has none yet; Inkling Small on LMArena WebDev, AA Coding Index and LiveCodeBench (Vals AI). Compare them on price and context instead.
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
No call
Only Inkling Small has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Inkling Small has a AA Intelligence Index result, 12.9.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Inkling Small has a AA Agentic Index result, 23.5.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Inkling Small has a GPQA Diamond result, 83.6%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Inkling Small has a MMLU Pro result, 85.6%.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Inkling Small has a Vals Index result, 27.6%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Ripple 65B Preview
Ripple 65B Preview takes 1.05M tokens against 524K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Ripple 65B Preview
Ripple 65B Preview $0.0005, Inkling Small $0.0010 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Inkling Small has the number, $0.16.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Ripple 65B Preview not benchmarked, Inkling Small 27.3 from 4 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- None yet: no category has been tested on both models.
- Widest single gap
- None yet: no benchmark has tested both models.
- Output price
- Ripple 65B Preview $0.60 against Inkling Small $1.20 per million output tokens, 2.0x apart.
- Context window
- Ripple 65B Preview takes 1.05M tokens, Inkling Small 524K.
Benchmark by benchmark
Every board either model has a result on, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale. Only one model is measured on each, so no row names a leader.
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index22 boards measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Inkling Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1408 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 52.9 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.9% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 82.2% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.0% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 19.1% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 13.7% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.5% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 9.3% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 55.1% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 33.6% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 64.1% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 49.7% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 1.0% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| FrontierCode 2.0 | Not measured | 4.8% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1451 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1448 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1397 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1396 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | Not measured | 1410 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| GameBench 2 | Not measured | 33.1 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | Not measured | 0.9% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Inkling Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 12.9 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 150.8 | Only Inkling Small measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Inkling Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 23.5 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 41.3% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 15.4% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 25.5% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 2.9% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 31.8% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| MCP Atlas | Not measured | 79.2% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Not measured | 54.4% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 36 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14 boards measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Inkling Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 83.6% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 89.5% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 33.3% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| HLE-Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 12.1% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| CritPt v2, hard subset (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 18.5% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 88.5% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 84.0% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 40.1% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 6.0% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1425 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1440 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1429 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1253 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1252 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Inkling Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 90.0% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 46.3% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 17.1% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 6.0% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1459 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1437 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Inkling Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 85.6% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 83.0% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 69.6% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 75.5% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 62.3% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 37.9% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| AA-Omniscience | Not measured | -9.5 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 19.1% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1429 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1414 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1413 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1413 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index29 boards measured
| Benchmark | Ripple 65B Preview | Inkling Small | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 27.6% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 59.4% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 84.1% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 50.0% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 75.7% | Only Inkling Small measured |
| GDPval-AA | Not measured | 1133 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1414 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1402 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1337 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1236 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1421 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1402 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1462 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1403 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1397 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1384 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1438 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1431 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1397 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1427 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1417 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1403 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1359 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1353 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1243 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1291 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1242 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1199 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1197 | Only Inkling Small measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 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
Ripple 65B Preview costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Ripple 65B Preview costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Ripple 65B Preview 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.
| Specification | Ricursive Ripple 65B Preview | Thinking Machines Inkling Small |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Ricursiveai | Thinking Machines |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | November 4, 2026 | July 30, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 524K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.20 | $0.45 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.60 | $1.20 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 27.3 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 4 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.16 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Ripple 65B Preview better than Inkling Small for coding?
Only Inkling Small has a coding score, 27.3 on the Vibe Coding Index; Ripple 65B Preview has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Ripple 65B Preview for output tokens 2.0x cheaper ($0.60 vs $1.20 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 524K tokens).
Which is cheaper, Ripple 65B Preview or Inkling Small?
Ripple 65B Preview costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.60 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, Ripple 65B Preview or Inkling Small?
Ripple 65B Preview, with 1.05M tokens against 524K.
Has any benchmark tested both Ripple 65B Preview and Inkling Small?
No benchmark has tested both yet. Ripple 65B Preview has none yet; Inkling Small on LMArena WebDev, AA Coding Index and LiveCodeBench (Vals AI). Compare them on price and context instead. Data as of November 14, 2026.