# Claude Opus 5.5 vs Inkling

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Inkling in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding › Web dev, Long context, and Factuality.

Claude Opus 5.5: $8.000000000000002 per 1M blended tokens.

Inkling: $1.7625 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 5.5: closed weights.

Inkling: open weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Inkling in General LLM at #2 against #70.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Inkling in Reasoning at #1 against #68.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Inkling in Coding › Web dev at #1 against #68.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Inkling in Long context at #1 against #83.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Inkling in Factuality at #1 against #48.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 is tied for state of the art in Reasoning (since Oct 2, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 14, 2026, Inkling is ranked #48 in Factuality (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text factuality; methodology v1.0).
