ARC Prize Verified

Inkling Small

Thinking Machines·Jul 30, 2026·6 reasoning variants

As of July 30, 2026, Thinking Machines' Inkling Small is the highest-scoring open-weight model evaluated by ARC Prize on both ARC-AGI-1 and ARC-AGI-2, while advancing the cost-performance frontier. At xhigh effort, it scores 84.0% on ARC-AGI-1 at $0.11 per task and 40.1% on ARC-AGI-2 Semi-Private at $0.23 per task, surpassing the original Inkling's scores of 79.5% at $0.30 and 36.5% at $0.64, respectively. It has not yet been evaluated on ARC-AGI-3.

Related models: Inkling

ARC-AGI 2 leaderboard

Inkling Small

Verified scores

VariantARC-AGI-1ARC-AGI-2ARC-AGI-3
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84.0%
40.1%
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78.0%
33.1%
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67.0%
13.6%
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52.5%
4.9%
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48.5%
4.0%
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None
5.5%
0.0%
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