Model comparison

Inkling-Small vs Yi-1.5-34B

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Inkling-Small Thinking Machines Lab

46.5

Rank #63 Confirmed

Yi-1.5-34B 01.AI

30.6

Rank #289 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Inkling-Small scores higher in 8 categories and Yi-1.5-34B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Inkling-Small leads 48.2 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 88.5% for Inkling-Small and 32% for Yi-1.5-34B.

Side by side

Inkling-Small and Yi-1.5-34B specifications
Inkling-SmallYi-1.5-34B
ProviderThinking Machines Lab01.AI
Noometry Index46.530.6
Released2026-07-152024-05-13
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window524K—
Max output1.05M—
Input $ / M tokens$0.45—
Output $ / M tokens$1.20—
Results tracked3321

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Category by category

Coding Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.4 (#272)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkInkling-SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Coding14511169
LMArena WebDev1409—
SciCode48.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—43.8%

Reasoning Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63), Yi-1.5-34B: 22.5 (#191)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkInkling-SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Hard Prompts14231160
ARC-AGI-240.1%—
ARC-AGI-184%—
CritPt8.3%—
Chess Puzzles18%—
Mystery Game Puzzles6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150.15—

Math Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77), Yi-1.5-34B: 27.5 (#249)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkInkling-SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Math14591182
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)46.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202590%—
ProofBench6%—
MATH Level 5—25.5%

Knowledge Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77), Yi-1.5-34B: 14.8 (#295)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkInkling-SmallYi-1.5-34B
GPQA Diamond88.5%32%
LMArena Expert14421144
SimpleQA Verified19.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62), Yi-1.5-34B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkInkling-SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Vision1235—

Multilingual Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104), Yi-1.5-34B: 32.3 (#256)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkInkling-SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Non-English14021121
LMArena Chinese14651213
LMArena French14361156
LMArena German14051111
LMArena Japanese14051021
LMArena Korean13631005
LMArena Russian13911091
LMArena Spanish14281121

Instruction Following Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114), Yi-1.5-34B: 59.2 (#257)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkInkling-SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Instruction Following13991139

Long Context Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118), Yi-1.5-34B: 34.6 (#248)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkInkling-SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Longer Query14011143

Writing & Preference Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107), Yi-1.5-34B: 37.4 (#257)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkInkling-SmallYi-1.5-34B
LMArena Text14141173
LMArena Creative Writing13311135
LMArena Multi-Turn14181153
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1491—

Frequently asked questions

Is Inkling-Small better than Yi-1.5-34B?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Inkling-Small or Yi-1.5-34B better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Inkling-Small and Yi-1.5-34B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Inkling-Small has 33 scored results on Noometry and Yi-1.5-34B has 21.

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