Noometry

Model comparison

Inkling-Small vs Qwen-VL Max

Inkling-Small has enough public results to be ranked (#57); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Inkling-Small Thinking Machines Lab

46.5

Rank #57 Confirmed

Qwen-VL Max Alibaba (Qwen)

35.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Inkling-Small scores higher in 1 category and Qwen-VL Max in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Inkling-Small leads 38.4 to 31.6.
  • Inkling-Small is cheaper at $0.45 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Qwen-VL Max.
  • Inkling-Small accepts more context: 524K tokens versus 131K.
  • Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Inkling-SmallQwen-VL Max
ProviderThinking Machines LabAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index46.535.3
Released2026-07-152024-01-18
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window524K131K
Max output1.05M8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.45$0.80
Output $ / M tokens$1.20$3.20
Results tracked333

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Inkling-Small: 43.3 (#80), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen-VL Max
LMArena WebDev1408—
SciCode48.7%—
LMArena Coding1451—

Reasoning Not comparable

Inkling-Small: 39.0 (#53), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen-VL Max
ARC-AGI-240.1%—
ARC-AGI-184%—
CritPt8.3%—
Chess Puzzles18%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1424—
Mystery Game Puzzles6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150.13—

Math Not comparable

Inkling-Small: 44.9 (#65), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen-VL Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)46.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202590%—
ProofBench6%—
LMArena Math1453—

Knowledge Not comparable

Inkling-Small: 48.3 (#71), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen-VL Max
GPQA Diamond88.5%—
SimpleQA Verified19.1%—
LMArena Expert1442—

Multimodal Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 38.4 (#59), Qwen-VL Max: 31.6 (#97)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen-VL Max
LMArena Vision12351212
Video-MME—51.3%
SpatialViz-Bench—32%

Multilingual Not comparable

Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#102), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen-VL Max
LMArena Non-English1400—
LMArena Chinese1458—
LMArena French1438—
LMArena German1412—
LMArena Japanese1399—
LMArena Korean1355—
LMArena Russian1392—
LMArena Spanish1426—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Inkling-Small: 73.9 (#112), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen-VL Max
LMArena Instruction Following1397—

Long Context Not comparable

Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#113), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen-VL Max
LMArena Longer Query1401—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Inkling-Small: 59.8 (#102), Qwen-VL Max: —

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwen-VL Max
LMArena Text1413—
LMArena Creative Writing1330—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1491—
LMArena Multi-Turn1420—

Frequently asked questions

Is Inkling-Small better than Qwen-VL Max?

Inkling-Small has enough public results to be ranked (#57); Qwen-VL Max does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Inkling-Small or Qwen-VL Max?

Inkling-Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.45 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Qwen-VL Max lists at $0.80 and $3.20.

Which has the bigger context window?

Inkling-Small does, with 524K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Inkling-Small and Qwen-VL Max share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Inkling-Small has 33 scored results on Noometry and Qwen-VL Max has 3.

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