Clinical Benchmarks

Inkling Small

Released 30 Jul 2026$0.3 input, $1.2 output per million tokens1M context276B A12BopenAlso written as thinkingmachines/inkling-smallCompare with other models

Clinical Benchmarks Index
54.3rank 54 of 148; 66.5 × 0.816 = 54.3, from 2 of 10 boards
Boards
2 of 13
Results
2
Latest measurement
Sep 2026

Results

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Documentation and coding

  1. MedScribe (Vals AI)
    model ID thinkingmachines/inkling-small; temperature=1; top_p=1; max_output_tokens=30000; reasoning_effort=0.99
    84.11
    Rank 35 of 105Leader Claude Opus 5.5 91.43
    Official leaderboard
    Measured Sep 2026
  2. MedCode (Vals AI)
    model ID thinkingmachines/inkling-small; reasoning_effort=0.99; temperature=1; top_p=1; max_output_tokens=30000
    37.89
    Rank 71 of 103Leader Claude Opus 5 63.57
    Official leaderboard
    Measured Sep 2026

Sources

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  1. 35MedScribe (Vals AI) model ID thinkingmachines/inkling-small; temperature=1; top_p=1; max_output_tok… 84.11
    Printed as 84.11%Official leaderboard, measured Sep 2026Configuration: model ID thinkingmachines/inkling-small; temperature=1; top_p=1; max_output_tokens=30000; reasoning_effort=0.99
    Vals AI MedScribe leaderboard official leaderboard, Vals AI, 3 Sep 2026. Vals AI MedScribe leaderboard, View: All Models, Task: Overall, row 35 of 105 (Inkling Small), Accuracy column; Updated 9/29/2026. Rendered BenchmarkView table; configuration from embedded astro-island BenchmarkView props, benchmarkView.default.tasks.overall["thinkingmachines/inkling-small"].
    35 | Inkling Small | 84.11%±1.87 | $0.3/$1.2 | 3m50s
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  2. 71MedCode (Vals AI) model ID thinkingmachines/inkling-small; reasoning_effort=0.99; temperature=1;… 37.89
    Printed as 37.89%Official leaderboard, measured Sep 2026Configuration: model ID thinkingmachines/inkling-small; reasoning_effort=0.99; temperature=1; top_p=1; max_output_tokens=30000
    Vals AI MedCode leaderboard official leaderboard, Vals AI, 29 Sep 2026. MedCode leaderboard, Overall task, All Models expanded, rank 71 of 103; Accuracy column; board Updated 9/29/2026. Rendered table row; configuration from embedded BenchmarkView props benchmarkView.default.tasks.overall["thinkingmachines/inkling-small"].
    71 | Inkling Small | 37.89%±2.21 | $0.3/$1.2 | 3m11s
    Every result from this document

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