Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Inkling-Small
Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Inkling-Small in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Inkling-Small leads 44.9 to 13.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.3% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 90% for Inkling-Small.
- Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | Inkling-Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Noometry Index | 28.9 | 46.5 |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2026-07-15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 524K |
| Max output | — | 1.05M |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.45 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 49 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.6 (#258), Inkling-Small: 43.3 (#80)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 27.4% | 48.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1287 | 1451 |
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1408 |
| WeirdML | 30.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 27.7 (#90), Inkling-Small: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |
Reasoning Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.1 (#286), Inkling-Small: 39.0 (#53)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 8.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1424 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | 150.13 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 40.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 84% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 18% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 6% |
| DTBench | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 13.7 (#294), Inkling-Small: 44.9 (#65)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | 90% |
| LMArena Math | 1244 | 1453 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 46.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 17.1% |
| ProofBench | — | 6% |
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#276), Inkling-Small: 48.3 (#71)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | 88.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | 1442 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 19.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | — |
| MMLU | 74.3% | — |
Multimodal Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.3 (#113), Inkling-Small: 38.4 (#59)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | 1235 |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |
Multilingual Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.2 (#213), Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#102)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | 1400 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | 1458 |
| LMArena French | 1262 | 1438 |
| LMArena German | 1237 | 1412 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1399 |
| LMArena Korean | 1172 | 1355 |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | 1392 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | 1426 |
Instruction Following Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 63.1 (#229), Inkling-Small: 73.9 (#112)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | 1397 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
| IFEval | 79.2% | — |
Long Context Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#195), Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#113)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | 1401 |
Writing & Preference Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.9 (#228), Inkling-Small: 59.8 (#102)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1413 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | 1330 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | 1491 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | 1420 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| WildBench | 76% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Inkling-Small?
Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 28.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Inkling-Small better for coding?
Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.3 versus 32.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Inkling-Small share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.