Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.8

Rank #194 Confirmed

Inkling-Small Thinking Machines Lab

46.5

Rank #63 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 0 categories and Inkling-Small in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling-Small leads 38.6 to 22.0.
  • Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling-Small
ProviderGoogleThinking Machines Lab
Noometry Index37.846.5
Released2025-02-052026-07-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—524K
Max output—1.05M
Input $ / M tokens—$0.45
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked3233

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Category by category

Coding Inkling-Small leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185), Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling-Small
LMArena Coding13221451
LMArena WebDev—1409
SciCode—48.7%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—

Reasoning Inkling-Small leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210), Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling-Small
LMArena Hard Prompts13241423
ARC-AGI-2—40.1%
ARC-AGI-1—84%
CritPt—8.3%
Chess Puzzles—18%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—6%
DTBench52.5%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—150.15
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Inkling-Small leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196), Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling-Small
LMArena Math13091459
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—46.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—90%
ProofBench—6%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Inkling-Small leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189), Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling-Small
LMArena Expert13051442
GPQA Diamond—88.5%
SimpleQA Verified—19.1%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Inkling-Small leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109), Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling-Small
LMArena Vision11001235

Multilingual Inkling-Small leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161), Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling-Small
LMArena Non-English13231402
LMArena Chinese13391465
LMArena French13471436
LMArena German13061405
LMArena Japanese13011405
LMArena Korean13251363
LMArena Russian13281391
LMArena Spanish13131428

Instruction Following Inkling-Small leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163), Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling-Small
LMArena Instruction Following13051399
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Inkling-Small leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160), Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling-Small
LMArena Longer Query13201401

Writing & Preference Inkling-Small leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177), Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling-Small
LMArena Text13301414
LMArena Creative Writing13191331
LMArena Multi-Turn13071418
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1491
WildBench79%—
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 37.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Inkling-Small better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Inkling-Small share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.

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