Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Inkling

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 44.1 on the Noometry Index. Inkling costs 3.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 40 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Inkling Thinking Machines Lab

44.1

Rank #80 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 40 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 9 categories and Inkling in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 66.7 to 31.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 54% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 0% for Inkling.
  • Inkling is cheaper at $1.87 / $4.68 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.7.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 66K.
  • Inkling has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Inkling specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Inkling
ProviderAnthropicThinking Machines Lab
Noometry Index58.344.1
Released2026-04-142026-07-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M66K
Max output128K66K
Input $ / M tokens$5$1.87
Output $ / M tokens$25$4.68
Results tracked6641

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Inkling: 34.5 (#234)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Inkling
FrontierCode38.5%14%
LMArena WebDev15581413
SciCode54.5%47%
WeirdML76.4%32.3%
LMArena Coding15181464
ALE-Bench1,323946
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierSWE—4.1%
GSO44.1%—
MirrorCode31.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Inkling: 29.6 (#85)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Inkling
APEX-Agents49.2%33.8%
τ²-bench Banking40.2%25%
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), Inkling: 40.4 (#56)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Inkling
ARC-AGI-275.8%36.5%
SimpleBench61.7%50%
ARC-AGI-193.5%79.5%
CritPt12%5.4%
Chess Puzzles30%21%
LMArena Hard Prompts15061451
DTBench94.7%87.5%
LMCA52.2%37.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25148.54
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), Inkling: 31.3 (#225)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Inkling: 55.1 (#49)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Inkling
GPQA Diamond90.2%88.3%
SimpleQA Verified51.7%40.3%
LMArena Expert15211465
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Inkling: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Inkling
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), Inkling: 54.0 (#52)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Inkling
LMArena Non-English14801434
LMArena Chinese15311490
LMArena French15031458
LMArena German14951446
LMArena Japanese14721429
LMArena Korean14641404
LMArena Russian14941429
LMArena Spanish14951448

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Inkling: 75.1 (#71)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Inkling
LMArena Instruction Following14981426

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Inkling: 43.8 (#86)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Inkling
LMArena Longer Query15051434

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Inkling: 65.2 (#51)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Inkling
LMArena Text14901441
LMArena Creative Writing14861387
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19141611
EQ-Bench 413111226
LMArena Multi-Turn15051436

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Inkling?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 44.1 on the Noometry Index. Inkling costs 3.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or Inkling?

Inkling is cheaper. It lists at $1.87 per million input tokens and $4.68 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.7 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Inkling better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 34.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.7 does, with 1M tokens against 66K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Inkling share?

40 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Inkling has 41.

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