Grok 4.7 vs Inkling

What I tested — same prompt, two models

I run the same fixed prompt set through every new model the day it drops — same string, one shot, single HTML file out — and I score the result 0–10 on whether it ran, how close it hit the brief, and how good it looked. Below is what came out when I gave the exact same prompts to Grok 4.7 and Inkling, side by side, on 11 shared tasks inside the Agent Operating System.

Both models were given identical prompts inside the Agent Operating System — no help, no iteration, no "best of N" tricks. I run each prompt once, save the HTML file the model produces, and score it 0–10 on whether it ran, how close it hit the brief, and how good it looked. The scoring is mine. The verdicts below are pulled from my source comparison guides at agentos.guide where I publish every score and the reasoning behind it.

Grok 4.7 · Wired into the Agent OS Grok Build tab (4.7 / 4.6 / 4.5 picker, OpenRouter fallback when the CLI is signed out) and benched on twenty skill-infused game builds, each played through its full gameplay arc on a Metal GPU before the vision judge scored the played frame.

Inkling · Benched on GoldieBench one-shot through Tinker's OpenAI-compatible endpoint at medium reasoning effort, then headless-playtested on the same rubric as the whole field. In the Agent OS it's wired into the opencode tab on your own Tinker key — the Ink Machine.

Where Grok 4.7 beat Inkling

The tasks where I gave Grok 4.7 a higher 0–10 score on the same prompt — with the actual commentary from my source guides.

Where Inkling beat Grok 4.7

The tasks where I gave Inkling a higher 0–10 score on the same prompt — with the actual commentary from my source guides.

Strengths & weaknesses I logged

Pricing & context — the spec sheet

The verdict — which should you pick?

Across 11 scored shared tasks, Grok 4.7 averaged 6.86/10, beating Inkling's 5.48/10 by 1.38 points. Pick Grok 4.7 when the build has to ship on the first prompt and you can afford the trade-offs in the comparison below.

If you only run one of these inside your stack, the head-to-head average above is the call. If you can run both, my honest play is to wire Grok 4.7 and Inkling both into the Agent Operating System and dispatch each from the kanban by task type — one-shot arcade, driving and shooter builds where the whole game has to arrive in a single file → Grok 4.7, owning a frontier model instead of renting one — on your own key, pennies per build → Inkling. That's the same setup I run for the 4,000+ founders inside the AI Profit Boardroom.

FAQ — Grok 4.7 vs Inkling

Which is better, Grok 4.7 or Inkling?

On Goldie Bench, Grok 4.7 averages 6.86/10 across the shared tasks, with 0 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze overall. Inkling averages 5.48/10, with 0 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze. Grok 4.7 wins the head-to-head 8–3.

How much does Grok 4.7 cost vs Inkling?

Grok 4.7: xAI's September 2026 release, priced exactly like Grok 4.6: $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output on the standard tier, $4 / $12 on the Fast tier (double the output speed). OpenRouter lists the same model at $1.60 / $4.80. Inkling: Inkling is open-weights — a 975B-parameter (41B active) Mixture-of-Experts model whose full weights are public on Hugging Face. You run it on your own key through Tinker's OpenAI-compatible endpoint (usage-based, ~$0.33/M sampling, 50% off at launch), or via Together / Fireworks / Modal / Databricks / Baseten. Benched here one-shot at medium reasoning effort via Tinker.

What's the context window for Grok 4.7 vs Inkling?

Grok 4.7 has a 500,000 tokens context window. Inkling has a 1,000,000 tokens context window.

When should I pick Grok 4.7 over Inkling?

Pick Grok 4.7 for: One-shot arcade, driving and shooter builds where the whole game has to arrive in a single file; High-volume agent work priced at half what the other frontier models charge; Grok Build inside the Agent OS: pick 4.7 in the tab and everything it writes lands in the workspace. The trade-off is the weaknesses we logged on the bench: 2 of 20 builds died on load or never moved when played — crypt: hud is not a function; voxelcraft: mesh.computeBoundingSphere is not a function file:///Users/j; Independent Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3.2 puts it at 46, seven points behind Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 at 53; Terminal-Bench 4.0 is the weak spot xAI reports itself: 38.0% at launch.

When should I pick Inkling over Grok 4.7?

Pick Inkling for: Owning a frontier model instead of renting one — on your own key, pennies per build; Generative visuals, data-viz and single-file web builds you want one-shot; A customizable open base you can fine-tune on Tinker for your own domain. The trade-off is the weaknesses we logged on the bench: One-shot 3D games are weak — three.js dungeons/racers render a title screen but no playable scene, like most open models (crypt 2.5); Physics and particle sims are hit-or-miss — black-hole, plasma and cloth one-shots often render dark or static (2.3–3.5); Not the strongest overall — the closed frontier (Fable 5) still tops the raw benchmarks; Inkling trades peak for ownership.

How does Goldie Bench score Grok 4.7 vs Inkling?

Every demo on this page was built by Julian Goldie inside the Agent Operating System — same fixed prompt for both models, one shot, single HTML file out. Each result gets a 0–10 score on whether it ran, how close it hit the brief, and how good it looked. The highest score on each task gets gold; second gets silver; third gets bronze. See methodology for full provenance.

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