Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Inkling-Small
Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus 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 45.1 to 14.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 90% for Inkling-Small.
- Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Inkling-Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 46.5 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 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 | 46 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1451 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1409 |
| SciCode | — | 48.7% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Inkling-Small: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | 18% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1423 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 150.15 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 40.1% |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 84% |
| CritPt | — | 8.3% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 6% |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | 90% |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1459 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 46.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 17.1% |
| ProofBench | — | 6% |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 88.5% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | 19.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1442 |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | 1235 |
Multilingual Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1402 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1465 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | 1436 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1405 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 1405 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1363 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1391 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1428 |
Instruction Following Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1399 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
Long Context Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1401 |
Writing & Preference Inkling-Small leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1414 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1331 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1418 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1491 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Inkling-Small?
Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Inkling-Small better for coding?
Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Inkling-Small share?
23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.