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Atria Dawn Preview vs Inkling

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 37.4.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · Thinking Machines Lab · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 37.4, ranking #10 overall.

In the 3 individual benchmarks reported for both models, Atria Dawn Preview wins 3; this is a narrower head-to-head signal than the composite indexes.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Atria Dawn Preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 52.3 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and agents — it leads those capability indexes
  • you value its reported benchmark strengths — it wins 3 of 3 exact shared results
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Inkling

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.95/M input and $4.05/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
37.4
#68
Reasoning
50.5
#12
37.2
#68
Coding
36.2
#22
27.3
#60
Agents
38.8
#10
20.5
#60
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
3 of 3
0 of 3
Input price
— / M
$0.95 / M
Output price
— / M
$4.05 / M
Context window
—
524,288

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Atria Dawn Preview
Inkling
Tool use
31.1#12
18.8#64
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 16 for Inkling

3 shared

Atria Dawn Preview outperforms in 3 benchmarks (GDPval-AA, Tau3 Banking, Terminal-Bench 2.1), while Inkling is better at 0 benchmarks.

Atria Dawn Preview significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Sun Sep 20 2026 • llm-stats.com

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

231.0B diff

Inkling has 231.0B more parameters than Atria Dawn Preview, making it 31.0% larger.

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
744.0Bparameters
Thinking Machines Lab
Inkling
975.0Bparameters
744.0B
Atria Dawn Preview
975.0B
Inkling

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Inkling specifies input context (524,288 tokens). Only Inkling specifies output context (524,288 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Thinking Machines Lab
Inkling
Input524,288 tokens
Output524,288 tokens
Sun Sep 20 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Inkling supports multimodal inputs, whereas Atria Dawn Preview does not.

Inkling can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Atria Dawn Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Inkling

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Inkling uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Atria Dawn Preview

MIT

Open weights

Inkling

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Inkling was released on 2026-07-21.

Atria Dawn Preview is 2 months newer than Inkling.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

1 weeks ago

1mo newer
Inkling

Jul 21, 2026

2 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Atria Dawn Preview and Inkling side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Atria Dawn Preview
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Inkling
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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Inkling.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Inkling?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 37.4. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Inkling is made by Thinking Machines Lab. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Atria Dawn Preview compare to Inkling in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. Inkling scores AIME 2026: 97.1%, VoiceBench Avg: 91.4%, Global-MMLU-Lite: 88.7%, IFBench: 79.8%, CharXiv-R: 78.1%.

What are the context window sizes for Atria Dawn Preview and Inkling?

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Inkling supports 524K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Atria Dawn Preview and Inkling?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs 37.4), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (MIT vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Atria Dawn Preview and Inkling?

Atria Dawn Preview is developed by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Inkling is developed by Thinking Machines Lab.

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