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Atria Dawn Preview vs Inkling-Small

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 38.5.

Shanghai AI Laboratory · Thinking Machines Lab · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 38.5, ranking #10 overall.

In the 5 individual benchmarks reported for both models, Atria Dawn Preview wins 5; 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 5 of 5 exact shared results
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose Inkling-Small

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.30/M input and $1.20/M output

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Atria Dawn Preview
Shanghai AI Laboratory
Inkling-Small
Thinking Machines Lab
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
52.3
#10
38.5
#65
Reasoning
50.5
#12
38.1
#63
Coding
36.2
#22
29.3
#54
Agents
38.8
#10
23.6
#56
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
5 of 5
0 of 5
Input price
— / M
$0.30 / M
Output price
— / M
$1.20 / M
Context window
—
256,000

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Atria Dawn Preview
Inkling-Small
Tool use
31.1#12
21.1#55
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Atria Dawn Preview · 24 for Inkling-Small

5 shared

Atria Dawn Preview outperforms in 5 benchmarks (BrowseComp, GDPval-AA, SWE-Bench Pro, Tau3 Banking, Terminal-Bench 2.1), while Inkling-Small 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

468.0B diff

Atria Dawn Preview has 468.0B more parameters than Inkling-Small, making it 169.6% larger.

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
744.0Bparameters
Thinking Machines Lab
Inkling-Small
276.0Bparameters
744.0B
Atria Dawn Preview
276.0B
Inkling-Small

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Inkling-Small specifies input context (256,000 tokens). Only Inkling-Small specifies output context (256,000 tokens).

Shanghai AI Laboratory
Atria Dawn Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Thinking Machines Lab
Inkling-Small
Input256,000 tokens
Output256,000 tokens
Sun Sep 20 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

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

Inkling-Small 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-Small

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Atria Dawn Preview is licensed under MIT, while Inkling-Small 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-Small

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Atria Dawn Preview was released on 2026-09-11, while Inkling-Small was released on 2026-07-30.

Atria Dawn Preview is 1 month newer than Inkling-Small.

Atria Dawn Preview

Sep 11, 2026

1 weeks ago

1mo newer
Inkling-Small

Jul 30, 2026

1 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-Small side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Atria Dawn Preview vs Inkling-Small.

Which is better, Atria Dawn Preview or Inkling-Small?

Atria Dawn Preview leads the LLM Stats Score 52.3 to 38.5. Atria Dawn Preview is made by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Inkling-Small 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-Small in benchmarks?

Atria Dawn Preview scores DeepSearchQA: 96.0%, BrowseComp: 92.5%, CyberGym: 86.5%, MLE-Bench Lite: 86.2%, WideSearch: 81.9%. Inkling-Small scores AIME 2026: 95.5%, VoiceBench Avg: 90.1%, GPQA: 89.5%, Global-MMLU-Lite: 86.7%, ARC-AGI: 84.0%.

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

Atria Dawn Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Inkling-Small supports 256K 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-Small?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (52.3 vs 38.5), 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-Small?

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

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