Noometry

Model comparison

Inkling-Small vs QwQ-32B

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Inkling-Small Thinking Machines Lab

46.5

Rank #63 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Inkling-Small scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling-Small leads 38.6 to 23.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 90% for Inkling-Small and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.

Side by side

Inkling-SmallQwQ-32B
ProviderThinking Machines LabAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index46.539.8
Released2026-07-152024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window524K—
Max output1.05M—
Input $ / M tokens$0.45—
Output $ / M tokens$1.20—
Results tracked3336

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Category by category

Coding Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwQ-32B
LMArena Coding14511333
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LMArena WebDev1409—
SciCode48.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Reasoning Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles18%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14231325
Epoch Capabilities Index150.15137.6
ARC-AGI-240.1%—
ARC-AGI-184%—
CritPt8.3%—
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202590%59.2%
LMArena Math14591359
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)46.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
ProofBench6%—
LiveBench Math—77.8%

Knowledge Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond88.5%65.3%
LMArena Expert14421324
SimpleQA Verified19.1%—
Confabulations—15.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwQ-32B
LMArena Vision1235—

Multilingual Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English14021305
LMArena Chinese14651378
LMArena French14361336
LMArena German14051313
LMArena Japanese14051262
LMArena Korean13631279
LMArena Russian13911297
LMArena Spanish14281354

Instruction Following Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following13991297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query14011308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkInkling-SmallQwQ-32B
LMArena Text14141329
LMArena Creative Writing13311288
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14911257
LMArena Multi-Turn14181314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Inkling-Small better than QwQ-32B?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Inkling-Small or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Inkling-Small and QwQ-32B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Inkling-Small has 33 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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