Compare / head-to-head

GPT-5.5vsInkling

GPT-5.5 leads 21 of 23 shared benchmarks. Inkling is 6.9x cheaper per token. Both offer a 1M-token context window.

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
21 – 2
GPT-5.5 leads
Cheaper per token
Inkling
6.9x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
OpenAI · Thinking Machines Lab
GPT-5.5
OpenAI · released 2026-04-23
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$5 ↗
Output /1M
$30 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.5
Scores
50 · 12 core
Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab · released 2026-07-15
textvisionaudio
Context
1M
Max out
—
Input /1M
$1 ↗
Output /1M
$4.05 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.17
Scores
39 · 12 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGPT-5.5InklingΔEdge
Reported by both · 23
GPQA Diamond90.7% ↗epoch run88.3% ↗epoch run+2.4 ptGPT-5.5
AIME 2026100% ↗matharena ⚠97.1% ↗+2.9 ptGPT-5.5
LMArena Elo1465.6 ↗1441.4 ↗+24.2GPT-5.5
APEX-Agents (Mercor)55.1% ↗33.8% ↗+21.3 ptGPT-5.5
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)26% ↗epoch run21% ↗epoch run+5 ptGPT-5.5
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)72.5% ↗epoch run4.9% ↗epoch run+67.6 ptGPT-5.5
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)85.3% ↗epoch run33.3% ↗epoch run+52 ptGPT-5.5
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)54% ↗49.4% ↗+4.6 ptGPT-5.5
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)82.1% ↗71% ↗+11.1 ptGPT-5.5
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)81.6% ↗72.8% ↗+8.8 ptGPT-5.5
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)70.7% ↗70.1% ↗+0.6 ptGPT-5.5
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)87.4% ↗73.5% ↗+13.9 ptGPT-5.5
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)95.9% ↗88.4% ↗+7.5 ptGPT-5.5
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)89.7% ↗78.3% ↗+11.4 ptGPT-5.5
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.0415 ↗-0.1086 ↗+0.2GPT-5.5
MCP Atlas75.3% ↗76% ↗-0.7 ptInkling
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)84.4% ↗epoch run88.9% ↗epoch run-4.5 ptInkling
SAGE (Vals AI)51.5% ↗36.6% ↗+14.9 ptGPT-5.5
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)69% ↗50% ↗+19 ptGPT-5.5
SimpleQA Verified63% ↗epoch run43.9% ↗+19.1 ptGPT-5.5
tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra)44.6% ↗25% ↗+19.6 ptGPT-5.5
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)73.5% ↗45.5% ↗+28 ptGPT-5.5
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)84.9% ↗32.3% ↗+52.6 ptGPT-5.5
Only GPT-5.5 reports · 21
ARC-AGI-1 (Verified)95% ↗not reported——
ARC-AGI-2 (Verified)85% ↗not reported——
BrowseComp84.4% ↗not reported——
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)67% ↗not reported——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)34.3% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tier 1-351.7% ↗not reported——
FrontierMath Tier 435.4% ↗not reported——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)44.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
GDPval (wins or ties)84.9% ↗not reported——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)37.3% ↗not reported——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1286.5 ↗not reported——
MirrorCode (Epoch AI run)10% ↗epoch runnot reported——
MMMU-Pro (no tools)81.2% ↗not reported——
MMMU-Pro (with tools)83.2% ↗not reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)56% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OSWorld-Verified78.7% ↗not reported——
SWE-Bench Pro58.6% ↗not reported——
Tau2-bench Telecom98% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 2.082.7% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon55.6% ↗not reported——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)7523.84 ↗not reported——
Only Inkling reports · 15
SWE-bench Verifiednot reported77.6% ↗——
Audio MCnot reported56.6% ↗——
BrowseComp (w/ ctx management)not reported77.1% ↗——
CharXiv RQnot reported78.1% ↗——
CharXiv RQ (with python)not reported82% ↗——
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)not reported4.1% ↗——
Global-MMLU-Litenot reported88.7% ↗——
IFBenchnot reported79.8% ↗——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)not reported1412.6 ↗——
MMAUnot reported77.2% ↗——
SWE-bench Pro (public)not reported54.3% ↗——
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (best harness)not reported63.8% ↗——
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)not reported0.5% ↗——
Toolathlon Verifiednot reported45.5% ↗——
VoiceBenchnot reported91.4% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GPT-5.5 minus Inkling in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecGPT-5.5InklingEdge
Context window1M tokens1M tokensTie
Max output128K tokens——
Input price / 1M$5 ↗$1 ↗Inkling
Output price / 1M$30 ↗$4.05 ↗Inkling
Cached input / 1M$0.5 ↗$0.17 ↗Inkling
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$35$5.05Inkling
Modalitiestext · visiontext · vision · audioInkling
Released2026-04-232026-07-15—
Cited benchmark scores5039—
Reliability

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