How do Claude Sonnet 5 and Inkling-Small compare on coding benchmarks?

The comparison table shows SWE-bench, SWE-Pro, SWE-Atlas, Terminal-Bench, DeepSWE, and coding agent index scores for both Claude Sonnet 5 and Inkling-Small when publicly disclosed.

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Claude Sonnet 5 vs Inkling-Small: benchmark scores, pricing & comparison.

Q: Which is better: Claude Sonnet 5 or Inkling-Small?

AskClash compares Claude Sonnet 5 and Inkling-Small side by side across SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, coding agent scores, token pricing, and context window so you can see which model wins on each benchmark.

Side-by-side Claude Sonnet 5 vs Inkling-Small comparison across SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, coding agent scores, token pricing, context window, and AskClash RWT. Green marks the winner on each benchmark.

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Rank #8 vs #18AskClash overall scores 75.0 vs 58.2.

Pricing $3.00/$15.0 vs $0.58/$1.44Input and output token prices per 1M tokens when published.

Proprietary vs Open WeightAnthropic vs Thinking Machines Lab.

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Inkling-Small benchmark comparison

Green cells highlight the winning model for each metric. Scores are cached from the AskClash LLM leaderboard snapshot.

Metric	Claude Sonnet 5	Inkling-Small
Overall Score	75.0	58.2
Leaderboard Rank	#8	#18
RWT	8.5	—
HLE	57.4	47.8
GPQA	91.1	89.5
IFEval	—	82.2
SWE-bench	85.2	80.2
SWE-Pro	63.2	—
Terminal-Bench	80.4	64.7
DeepSWE	53.8	—
OSWorld	81.2	—
MCP Atlas	—	79.6
CharXiv	88.3	81.3
MMMU-Pro	77.3	74.0
ARC-AGI 2	—	40.1
Input Price (per 1M tokens)	$3.00	$0.58
Output Price (per 1M tokens)	$15.0	$1.44
Context Window	1M	1M
Benchmarks Published	12	9

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Inkling-Small head-to-head charts

Claude Sonnet 5 leads 7 and Inkling-Small leads 0 of 7 shared benchmarks. Inkling-Small is cheaper on a defined 1M-input / 200K-output workload. Charts show only benchmarks both models publish.

Claude Sonnet 5Inkling-Small

Overall

75.0Claude Sonnet 5

58.2Inkling-Small

HLE

57.4Claude Sonnet 5

47.8Inkling-Small

GPQA

91.1Claude Sonnet 5

89.5Inkling-Small

SWE-bench

85.2Claude Sonnet 5

80.2Inkling-Small

Terminal-Bench

80.4Claude Sonnet 5

64.7Inkling-Small

CharXiv

88.3Claude Sonnet 5

81.3Inkling-Small

MMMU-Pro

77.3Claude Sonnet 5

74.0Inkling-Small

Claude Sonnet 5

Input$3.00

Output$15.0

Workload$6.00

Context1M

Inkling-Small

Input$0.58

Output$1.44

Workload$0.87

Context1M

Workload = published cost of 1M input + 200K output tokens. Open the live leaderboard for interactive compare charts.

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How to read this comparison

Benchmark scores

Higher is better for all benchmark scores (SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, etc.). Green marks the model with the higher score.

Token pricing

Lower is better for input and output prices. Green marks the cheaper model per 1M tokens.

Coverage matters

Models with fewer disclosed benchmark cells may have inflated percentile scores. Check the benchmark cell count for context.

This comparison page is generated from the AskClash LLM leaderboard cache. Open the live leaderboard for real-time scores and interactive filtering.