Noometry

Model comparison

Grok 3 vs Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Grok 3 xAI

39.9

Rank #157 Confirmed

Inkling-Small Thinking Machines Lab

46.5

Rank #63 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 2 categories and Inkling-Small in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling-Small leads 38.6 to 13.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 5.5% for Grok 3 and 84% for Inkling-Small.
  • Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok 3Inkling-Small
ProviderxAIThinking Machines Lab
Noometry Index39.946.5
Released2025-04-092026-07-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—524K
Max output—1.05M
Input $ / M tokens—$0.45
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked4033

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Category by category

Coding Inkling-Small leads

Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85)

BenchmarkGrok 3Inkling-Small
LMArena Coding14321451
Aider Polyglot53.3%—
LMArena WebDev—1409
SciCode—48.7%
WeirdML37.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Inkling-Small: —

BenchmarkGrok 3Inkling-Small
BALROG29.5%—

Reasoning Inkling-Small leads

Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63)

BenchmarkGrok 3Inkling-Small
ARC-AGI-20%40.1%
ARC-AGI-15.5%84%
LMArena Hard Prompts14341423
Epoch Capabilities Index138.33150.15
SimpleBench36.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark61.3%—
CritPt—8.3%
Chess Puzzles—18%
Mystery Game Puzzles—6%

Math Inkling-Small leads

Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77)

BenchmarkGrok 3Inkling-Small
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202555.6%90%
LMArena Math13911459
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—46.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4—17.1%
ProofBench—6%
Omni-MATH46.4%—
MATH Level 588.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)3.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Inkling-Small leads

Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77)

BenchmarkGrok 3Inkling-Small
GPQA Diamond75.8%88.5%
LMArena Expert14211442
SimpleQA Verified—19.1%
MMLU-Pro78.8%—
Confabulations14.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.8%—
GPQA (HELM)65%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok 3: —, Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62)

BenchmarkGrok 3Inkling-Small
LMArena Vision—1235

Multilingual Too close to call

Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104)

BenchmarkGrok 3Inkling-Small
LMArena Non-English14101402
LMArena Chinese14481465
LMArena French14601436
LMArena German14311405
LMArena Japanese13871405
LMArena Korean13731363
LMArena Russian14161391
LMArena Spanish14171428

Instruction Following Grok 3 leads

Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114)

BenchmarkGrok 3Inkling-Small
LMArena Instruction Following14091399
IFEval88.4%—

Long Context Inkling-Small leads

Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118)

BenchmarkGrok 3Inkling-Small
LMArena Longer Query14391401
Fiction.LiveBench58.3%—

Writing & Preference Inkling-Small leads

Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107)

BenchmarkGrok 3Inkling-Small
LMArena Text14261414
LMArena Creative Writing14141331
EQ-Bench Creative Writing11861491
LMArena Multi-Turn14251418
Short-Story Creative Writing76.4%—
WildBench84.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok 3 better than Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 39.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Grok 3 or Inkling-Small better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 41.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.

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