# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Inkling Small

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Inkling Small in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, and Factuality.

Claude Opus 4.8: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Inkling Small: $0.6375000000000001 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.8: closed weights.

Inkling Small: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Inkling Small in General LLM at #20 against #110.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Inkling Small in Reasoning at #10 against #107.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Inkling Small in Coding › Web dev at #33 against #69.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Inkling Small in Long context at #10 against #125.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Inkling Small in Factuality at #21 against #89.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Jun 5, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 14, 2026, Inkling Small is ranked #69 in Coding › Web dev (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).