Noometry

Model comparison

Inkling-Small vs Qwen Plus

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 15 shared benchmarks.

Inkling-Small Thinking Machines Lab

46.5

Rank #63 Confirmed

Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

37.1

Rank #210 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Inkling-Small scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen Plus in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Inkling-Small leads 45.1 to 23.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 90% for Inkling-Small and 17.8% for Qwen Plus.
  • Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.45 / $1.20 for Inkling-Small.
  • Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 524K.
  • Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Inkling-SmallQwen Plus
ProviderThinking Machines LabAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index46.537.1
Released2026-07-152024-01-25
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window524K1M
Max output1.05M33K
Input $ / M tokens$0.45$0.40
Output $ / M tokens$1.20$1.20
Results tracked3320

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Category by category

Coding Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen Plus
LMArena Coding14511328
LMArena WebDev1409—
SciCode48.7%—

Reasoning Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts14231317
ARC-AGI-240.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—63.3%
ARC-AGI-184%—
CritPt8.3%—
Chess Puzzles18%—
Mystery Game Puzzles6%—
DTBench—81.1%
LMCA—24%
Epoch Capabilities Index150.15—

Math Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202590%17.8%
LMArena Math14591326
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)46.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
ProofBench6%—
MATH Level 5—65.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen Plus
GPQA Diamond88.5%48.1%
LMArena Expert14421328
SimpleQA Verified19.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62), Qwen Plus: —

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen Plus
LMArena Vision1235—

Multilingual Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen Plus
LMArena Non-English14021310
LMArena Chinese14651347
LMArena Japanese14051251
LMArena Russian13911323
LMArena French1436—
LMArena German1405—
LMArena Korean1363—
LMArena Spanish1428—

Instruction Following Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen Plus
LMArena Instruction Following13991303

Long Context Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen Plus
LMArena Longer Query14011324

Writing & Preference Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen Plus
LMArena Text14141326
LMArena Creative Writing13311293
LMArena Multi-Turn14181336
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1491—

Frequently asked questions

Is Inkling-Small better than Qwen Plus?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 37.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Inkling-Small or Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Inkling-Small lists at $0.45 and $1.20.

Is Inkling-Small or Qwen Plus better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 38.9 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 524K.

How many benchmarks do Inkling-Small and Qwen Plus share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Inkling-Small has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.

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