API-only (weights pending) Apache 2.0 weights in 5 days (Nov 12, 2026) Model card checked Nov 6, 2026

Benchmarks · comparison

Inkling 2 Small vs GPT-6 Luna

Both models appear in the same evaluation table on the official model card, which is the only place they are measured under identical conditions and reported by the same party.

Across 47 benchmarks where both models report a score, Inkling 2 Small is higher on 41 and GPT-6 Luna is higher on 6 . Inkling 2 Small has 594B total parameters with 17B active, and is priced at $1 per million output tokens on Tinker. Its largest margin is on AA-Briefcase v1.1. Its largest deficit is on Code2Video-AA.

Head to head

Position
Inkling 2 Small: the subject of this site · GPT-6 Luna: closed weights
Bechmarks scored
47 shared rows, out of 71 total
Record
41 wins · 6 losses · 0 ties

Largest differences

Rows with the widest gap in either direction. Positive means Inkling 2 Small scores higher.
Benchmark Inkling 2 Small GPT-6 Luna Gap
AA-Briefcase v1.1 · Knowledge Work 1,527 1,337 + 190
DesignArena 3D Design · Visual Creation 1,401 1,213 + 188
GDPVal-AA v2.1 · Knowledge Work 1,630 1,444 + 186
DesignArena Game Dev · Visual Creation 1,428 1,261 + 167
DesignArena Web Apps · Visual Creation 1,296 1,161 + 135
Code Arena · Visual Creation 1,653 1,579 + 74
DesignArena Website · Visual Creation 1,340 1,268 + 72
AA-Omniscience v1.1 · Factuality 73.3% 20.7% + 52.6
AA-Omniscience v1.1 · Factuality 16.1 -8.3 + 24.4
JobBench · Knowledge Work 70.5% 49% + 21.5

Every shared benchmark

All 47 rows where both models have a reported score. Rows are grouped as the model card groups them.
Benchmark Inkling 2 Small GPT-6 Luna Leader
Third Party Index
AA Index (v5.0) 30.6 27.9 Inkling 2 Small
Vals Index (v2.2) 56.1% 52.3% Inkling 2 Small
Coding
FrontierCode v2.0 25.4% 25.2% Inkling 2 Small
DeepSWE v1.1 72.1% 66.6% Inkling 2 Small
Terminal Bench Science v0.1 5.7% 8.6% GPT-6 Luna
Terminal Bench v4.0 13.1% 12.6% Inkling 2 Small
Vibe Code Bench v1.1 81.6% 81.7% GPT-6 Luna
SWE-Marathon v1.1 38.8% 28.1% Inkling 2 Small
SWEBench Multilingual 81.2% 78.2% Inkling 2 Small
SWEBench Multimodal v2 43.1% 37.5% Inkling 2 Small
SWEBench Verified 82.2% 76.1% Inkling 2 Small
Autoresearch
BioMysteryBench 70% 61.5% Inkling 2 Small
Search and Tools
MCP Atlas · Full / Public 85.4% 77.8% Inkling 2 Small
Knowledge Work
AA-Briefcase v1.1 1,527 1,337 Inkling 2 Small
GDPVal-AA v2.1 1,630 1,444 Inkling 2 Small
JobBench 70.5% 49% Inkling 2 Small
Finance Work
Finance Agent v2.1 67.5% 56.8% Inkling 2 Small
Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 69.5% 70% GPT-6 Luna
Tax Agent Bench 65.8% 58.9% Inkling 2 Small
DAYJOB (Finance) 14.3% 6.8% Inkling 2 Small
Apex-Accounting v1.1 · pass@1 / mean score 14.5% 10.8% Inkling 2 Small
Diligence Bench · Best harness 58.1% 42.1% Inkling 2 Small
Legal Work
Harvey LAB v1.1 21.7% 4.2% Inkling 2 Small
Legal Research Bench 46.6% 30.3% Inkling 2 Small
Visual Creation
DesignArena Web Apps 1,296 1,161 Inkling 2 Small
DesignArena Website 1,340 1,268 Inkling 2 Small
DesignArena Game Dev 1,428 1,261 Inkling 2 Small
DesignArena 3D Design 1,401 1,213 Inkling 2 Small
Code Arena 1,653 1,579 Inkling 2 Small
Code2Video-AA 1,020 1,030 GPT-6 Luna
Visual Perception
PerceptionBench 64.7% 56.2% Inkling 2 Small
ScreenSpot Pro · original / with Python 83.8% 81.1% Inkling 2 Small
Humanity’s Sixth Sense 33.3% 21% Inkling 2 Small
Visual Reasoning
GDP.pdf 25.2% 22.8% Inkling 2 Small
MMMU Pro (Standard 10) 81.6% 79.7% Inkling 2 Small
Charxiv RQ · original / with Python 85.6% 81.8% Inkling 2 Small
Chartography · original / with Python 36.7% 32% Inkling 2 Small
SAGE v1.1 88.6% 83.4% Inkling 2 Small
STEM Reasoning
CritPt v2 · Full / Hard 55.7% 65.1% GPT-6 Luna
HLE-Diamond 28.7% 22.2% Inkling 2 Small
HLE (text only) 44.1% 38.5% Inkling 2 Small
Long Context
LongBench v2 70.6% 65% Inkling 2 Small
Factuality
AA-Omniscience v1.1 · score 16.1 -8.3 Inkling 2 Small
AA-Omniscience v1.1 · non-hallucination rate 73.3% 20.7% Inkling 2 Small
Instruction Following
ComplexConstraints v1.0 44.5% 27.3% Inkling 2 Small
Safety
DistressBench 82% 66.7% Inkling 2 Small
Cybersecurity
CyberBench v1.1 72.7% 76.3% GPT-6 Luna

Reading the comparison honestly

These numbers come from one table published by Thinking Machines, using third-party evaluations where those exist. That makes them comparable to each other, but it does not make them neutral: the vendor chose which benchmarks to run and how to present them, and a benchmark that a model loses has a way of not appearing.

The models are also not the same shape of thing. GPT-6 Luna sits in the closed weights tier of the card's own grouping, while Inkling 2 Small is the subject of this site. A win against a smaller model is less meaningful than a win against a larger one, and the table does not adjust for that.

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Compared Nov 6, 2026.