Verdict
Kimi K2.6 leads 7–3 across 10 shared benchmarks.
Inkling 3 · Kimi K2.6 7 · higher isn't always better — check the caveats below.
Reported scores — protocols may differ. How we compare
Unknown: Kimi K2.6 leads 2–1 across 3 shared unknown benchmarks (largest gap: ProofBench, 16 vs 0 — single evaluator).
Math: Kimi K2.6 leads 2–0 across 2 shared math benchmarks (largest gap: FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private, 25.64 vs 4.88 — single evaluator).
Reasoning: Evenly split 1–1 across 2 shared reasoning benchmarks (largest gap: SimpleQA Verified, 40.3 vs 34.9 — protocols undisclosed).
Kimi K2.6 leads 7–3 across 10 shared benchmarks. Inkling leads 3 benchmarks and Kimi K2.6 leads 7. Higher isn't always better — see the integrity caveats on each benchmark.
Inkling and Kimi K2.6 have 10 benchmarks in common in our data — those are the only rows where a direct, apples-to-apples comparison is drawn.
Kimi K2.6 leads math 2–0. Kimi K2.6 leads unknown 2–1.