Performance Benchmarks for inkling

Analyze how inkling stacks up against other frontier models in terms of cost-to-performance and raw intelligence (LMArena Elo).

2026 Performance Summary

🚀 Intelligence (Elo): 1439
💰 API Cost (Input): $0.000001 / 1M tokens
⚡ API Cost (Output): $0.00000405 / 1M tokens
⏱️ Real-world Throughput: 153 tokens/s

Analysis: While inkling is a capable model, it is currently outperformed in efficiency by hy4-preview. hy4-preview sits higher on the Pareto line, offering approximately 192 points more intelligence (Elo) for a comparable or lower API cost.

Highly Recommended Alternatives

Frontier Model	LMArena Elo	API Cost (1M)	Throughput
hy4-preview	1631	$8.34e-7	37
gemini-3-flash	1474	$5e-7	82
glm-5.3-flash	1469	$7.5e-8	93
gemma-4-26b-a4b	1438	$7e-8	48
qwen3.5-flash	1397	$6.5e-8	40

*These models represent the Pareto Frontier (optimal cost-to-performance).*