Noometry

Model comparison

Seed 2.0 Pro vs Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 42.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Seed 2.0 Pro ByteDance Seed

42.5

Rank #97 Confirmed

Inkling-Small Thinking Machines Lab

46.5

Rank #57 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Seed 2.0 Pro scores higher in 5 categories and Inkling-Small in 4 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling-Small leads 39.0 to 23.1.
  • Inkling-Small is cheaper at $0.45 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Seed 2.0 Pro.
  • Inkling-Small accepts more context: 524K tokens versus 256K.
  • Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Seed 2.0 ProInkling-Small
ProviderByteDance SeedThinking Machines Lab
Noometry Index42.546.5
Released2026-02-142026-07-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window256K524K
Max output128K1.05M
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.45
Output $ / M tokens$3$1.20
Results tracked2033

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 42.9 (#84), Inkling-Small: 43.3 (#80)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Coding14721451
LMArena WebDev—1408
SciCode—48.7%

Reasoning Inkling-Small leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 23.1 (#167), Inkling-Small: 39.0 (#53)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Hard Prompts14531424
ARC-AGI-2—40.1%
NYT Connections (extended)28.4%—
ARC-AGI-1—84%
CritPt—8.3%
Chess Puzzles—18%
Thematic Generalization57.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—150.13

Math Inkling-Small leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#110), Inkling-Small: 44.9 (#65)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Math14401453
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—46.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—90%
ProofBench—6%

Knowledge Inkling-Small leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 39.6 (#119), Inkling-Small: 48.3 (#71)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Expert14401442
GPQA Diamond—88.5%
SimpleQA Verified—19.1%

Multimodal Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 40.8 (#34), Inkling-Small: 38.4 (#59)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Vision12751235

Multilingual Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 54.8 (#37), Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#102)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Non-English14421400
LMArena Chinese14901458
LMArena French14701438
LMArena German14431412
LMArena Japanese14081399
LMArena Korean14121355
LMArena Russian14501392
LMArena Spanish14601426

Instruction Following Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 74.7 (#86), Inkling-Small: 73.9 (#112)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Instruction Following14141397

Long Context Too close to call

Seed 2.0 Pro: 43.6 (#85), Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#113)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Longer Query14281401

Writing & Preference Seed 2.0 Pro leads

Seed 2.0 Pro: 63.0 (#66), Inkling-Small: 59.8 (#102)

BenchmarkSeed 2.0 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Text14481413
LMArena Creative Writing14061330
LMArena Multi-Turn14411420
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1491

Frequently asked questions

Is Seed 2.0 Pro better than Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 42.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Seed 2.0 Pro or Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.45 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Seed 2.0 Pro lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Seed 2.0 Pro or Inkling-Small better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (42.9 vs 43.3); test both on your own repository before choosing.

Which has the bigger context window?

Inkling-Small does, with 524K tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do Seed 2.0 Pro and Inkling-Small share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Seed 2.0 Pro has 20 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.

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