Noometry

Model comparison

DBRX vs Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

DBRX Databricks

29.4

Rank #311 Confirmed

Inkling-Small Thinking Machines Lab

46.5

Rank #63 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. DBRX scores higher in 0 categories and Inkling-Small in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Inkling-Small leads 48.2 to 14.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 32.9% for DBRX and 88.5% for Inkling-Small.

Side by side

DBRXInkling-Small
ProviderDatabricksThinking Machines Lab
Noometry Index29.446.5
Released2024-03-272026-07-15
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window—524K
Max output—1.05M
Input $ / M tokens—$0.45
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked2133

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Category by category

Coding Inkling-Small leads

DBRX: 32.9 (#266), Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85)

BenchmarkDBRXInkling-Small
LMArena Coding11321451
LMArena WebDev—1409
SciCode—48.7%
HumanEval+70.1%—
MBPP+55.8%—

Reasoning Inkling-Small leads

DBRX: 21.4 (#222), Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63)

BenchmarkDBRXInkling-Small
LMArena Hard Prompts11131423
ARC-AGI-2—40.1%
ARC-AGI-1—84%
CritPt—8.3%
Chess Puzzles—18%
Mystery Game Puzzles—6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—150.15

Math Inkling-Small leads

DBRX: 24.3 (#269), Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77)

BenchmarkDBRXInkling-Small
LMArena Math11451459
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—46.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—90%
ProofBench—6%
MATH Level 511.7%—

Knowledge Inkling-Small leads

DBRX: 14.9 (#294), Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77)

BenchmarkDBRXInkling-Small
GPQA Diamond32.9%88.5%
LMArena Expert10761442
SimpleQA Verified—19.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

DBRX: —, Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62)

BenchmarkDBRXInkling-Small
LMArena Vision—1235

Multilingual Inkling-Small leads

DBRX: 29.3 (#268), Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104)

BenchmarkDBRXInkling-Small
LMArena Non-English10711402
LMArena Chinese10681465
LMArena French10961436
LMArena German10571405
LMArena Japanese9901405
LMArena Korean9931363
LMArena Russian10781391
LMArena Spanish10641428

Instruction Following Inkling-Small leads

DBRX: 57.5 (#270), Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114)

BenchmarkDBRXInkling-Small
LMArena Instruction Following11121399

Long Context Inkling-Small leads

DBRX: 33.7 (#258), Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118)

BenchmarkDBRXInkling-Small
LMArena Longer Query11121401

Writing & Preference Inkling-Small leads

DBRX: 33.6 (#275), Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107)

BenchmarkDBRXInkling-Small
LMArena Text11191414
LMArena Creative Writing11041331
LMArena Multi-Turn11111418
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1491

Frequently asked questions

Is DBRX better than Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is DBRX 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 DBRX and Inkling-Small share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. DBRX has 21 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.

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