Noometry

Model comparison

Grok-3 mini vs Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Grok-3 mini xAI

41.2

Rank #141 Confirmed

Inkling-Small Thinking Machines Lab

46.5

Rank #63 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok-3 mini scores higher in 1 category and Inkling-Small in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling-Small leads 38.6 to 13.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 16.5% for Grok-3 mini and 84% for Inkling-Small.
  • Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok-3 miniInkling-Small
ProviderxAIThinking Machines Lab
Noometry Index41.246.5
Released2025-04-092026-07-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—524K
Max output—1.05M
Input $ / M tokens—$0.45
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked3533

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Category by category

Coding Inkling-Small leads

Grok-3 mini: 40.8 (#131), Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling-Small
LMArena Coding13791451
Aider Polyglot49.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1409
SciCode—48.7%
WeirdML42.6%—

Reasoning Inkling-Small leads

Grok-3 mini: 13.6 (#334), Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling-Small
ARC-AGI-20.4%40.1%
ARC-AGI-116.5%84%
LMArena Hard Prompts13751423
Epoch Capabilities Index140.35150.15
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
CritPt—8.3%
Chess Puzzles—18%
Mystery Game Puzzles—6%

Math Inkling-Small leads

Grok-3 mini: 42.1 (#85), Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling-Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%90%
LMArena Math13861459
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—46.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
ProofBench—6%
Omni-MATH31.8%—
MATH Level 590.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%—

Knowledge Inkling-Small leads

Grok-3 mini: 46.4 (#81), Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling-Small
GPQA Diamond76.3%88.5%
LMArena Expert13951442
SimpleQA Verified—19.1%
MMLU-Pro79.9%—
Confabulations10.8%—
GPQA (HELM)67.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok-3 mini: —, Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling-Small
LMArena Vision—1235

Multilingual Inkling-Small leads

Grok-3 mini: 48.1 (#145), Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling-Small
LMArena Non-English13521402
LMArena Chinese13871465
LMArena French13571436
LMArena German13491405
LMArena Japanese13421405
LMArena Korean13351363
LMArena Russian13531391
LMArena Spanish13811428

Instruction Following Grok-3 mini leads

Grok-3 mini: 78.5 (#9), Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling-Small
LMArena Instruction Following13571399
IFEval95.1%—

Long Context Inkling-Small leads

Grok-3 mini: 41.0 (#147), Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling-Small
LMArena Longer Query13721401
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%—

Writing & Preference Inkling-Small leads

Grok-3 mini: 52.5 (#169), Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107)

BenchmarkGrok-3 miniInkling-Small
LMArena Text13701414
LMArena Creative Writing13421331
LMArena Multi-Turn13551418
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1491
WildBench65.1%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok-3 mini better than Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 41.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok-3 mini or Inkling-Small better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.

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

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-3 mini has 35 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.

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