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Model comparison

Grok-3 mini vs Inkling

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Grok-3 mini xAI

41.2

Rank #141 Confirmed

Inkling Thinking Machines Lab

44.1

Rank #80 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-3 mini scores higher in 3 categories and Inkling in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling leads 40.4 to 13.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 16.5% for Grok-3 mini and 79.5% for Inkling.
  • Inkling has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok-3 miniInkling
ProviderxAIThinking Machines Lab
Noometry Index41.244.1
Released2025-04-092026-07-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—66K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.87
Output $ / M tokens—$4.68
Results tracked3541

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Category by category

Coding Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131), Inkling: 34.5 (#234)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling
WeirdML42.6%32.3%
LMArena Coding13791464
FrontierCode—14%
Aider Polyglot49.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1413
FrontierSWE—4.1%
SciCode—47%
ALE-Bench—946

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok-3 mini: —, Inkling: 29.6 (#85)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling
APEX-Agents—33.8%
τ²-bench Banking—25%

Reasoning Inkling leads

Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334), Inkling: 40.4 (#56)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling
ARC-AGI-20.4%36.5%
ARC-AGI-116.5%79.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts13751451
Epoch Capabilities Index140.35148.54
SimpleBench—50%
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
CritPt—5.4%
Chess Puzzles—21%
DTBench—87.5%
LMCA—37.6%

Math Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85), Inkling: 31.3 (#225)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%88.9%
LMArena Math13861479
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—33.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4—4.9%
ProofBench—0%
Omni-MATH31.8%—
MATH Level 590.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%—

Knowledge Inkling leads

Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81), Inkling: 55.1 (#49)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling
GPQA Diamond76.3%88.3%
LMArena Expert13951465
SimpleQA Verified—40.3%
MMLU-Pro79.9%—
Confabulations10.8%—
GPQA (HELM)67.5%—

Multilingual Inkling leads

Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145), Inkling: 54.0 (#52)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling
LMArena Non-English13521434
LMArena Chinese13871490
LMArena French13571458
LMArena German13491446
LMArena Japanese13421429
LMArena Korean13351404
LMArena Russian13531429
LMArena Spanish13811448

Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9), Inkling: 75.1 (#71)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling
LMArena Instruction Following13571426
IFEval95.1%—

Long Context Inkling leads

Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147), Inkling: 43.8 (#86)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling
LMArena Longer Query13721434
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference Inkling leads

Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169), Inkling: 65.2 (#51)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling
LMArena Text13701441
LMArena Creative Writing13421387
LMArena Multi-Turn13551436
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1611
WildBench65.1%—
EQ-Bench 4—1226

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok-3 mini better than Inkling?

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok-3 mini or Inkling better for coding?

Grok-3 mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 34.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Grok-3 mini and Inkling share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-3 mini has 35 scored results on Noometry and Inkling has 41.

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