Model comparison

Inkling vs Llama 2-13B

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Inkling Thinking Machines Lab

44.1

Rank #80 Confirmed

Llama 2-13B Meta

29.6

Rank #309 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Inkling scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-13B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Inkling leads 65.2 to 29.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 87.5% for Inkling and 42.2% for Llama 2-13B.

Side by side

Inkling and Llama 2-13B specifications
InklingLlama 2-13B
ProviderThinking Machines LabMeta
Noometry Index44.129.6
Released2026-07-152023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window66K—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.87—
Output $ / M tokens$4.68—
Results tracked4132

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Category by category

Coding Inkling leads

Inkling: 34.5 (#234), Llama 2-13B: 30.9 (#291)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-13B
LMArena Coding14641062
FrontierCode14%—
LMArena WebDev1413—
FrontierSWE4.1%—
SciCode47%—
WeirdML32.3%—
ALE-Bench946—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Inkling: 29.6 (#85), Llama 2-13B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-13B
APEX-Agents33.8%—
τ²-bench Banking25%—

Reasoning Inkling leads

Inkling: 40.4 (#56), Llama 2-13B: 12.8 (#337)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-13B
Chess Puzzles21%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14511051
DTBench87.5%42.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index148.54106.17
ARC-AGI-236.5%—
SimpleBench50%—
ARC-AGI-179.5%—
CritPt5.4%—
LMCA37.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.2%
HellaSwag—80.7%
LAMBADA—76.5%
PIQA—80.8%
WinoGrande—72.8%

Math Too close to call

Inkling: 31.3 (#225), Llama 2-13B: 31.1 (#229)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-13B
LMArena Math14791065
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)33.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.9%—
ProofBench0%—
GSM8K—36.9%

Knowledge Inkling leads

Inkling: 55.1 (#49), Llama 2-13B: 28.1 (#249)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-13B
LMArena Expert14651030
GPQA Diamond88.3%—
SimpleQA Verified40.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.3%
BoolQ—82.4%
MMLU—55.6%
OpenBookQA—57%
TriviaQA—79.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Inkling: —, Llama 2-13B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-13B
ScienceQA—55.8%

Multilingual Inkling leads

Inkling: 54.0 (#52), Llama 2-13B: 26.5 (#279)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-13B
LMArena Non-English14341024
LMArena Chinese14901001
LMArena French14581044
LMArena German14461009
LMArena Japanese1429894
LMArena Korean1404953
LMArena Russian14291055
LMArena Spanish14481087

Instruction Following Inkling leads

Inkling: 75.1 (#71), Llama 2-13B: 53.3 (#287)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-13B
LMArena Instruction Following14261045

Long Context Inkling leads

Inkling: 43.8 (#86), Llama 2-13B: 32.3 (#269)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-13B
LMArena Longer Query14341064

Writing & Preference Inkling leads

Inkling: 65.2 (#51), Llama 2-13B: 29.8 (#289)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-13B
LMArena Text14411084
LMArena Creative Writing13871047
LMArena Multi-Turn14361050
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1611—
EQ-Bench 41226—

Frequently asked questions

Is Inkling better than Llama 2-13B?

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 29.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Inkling or Llama 2-13B better for coding?

Inkling scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.5 versus 30.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Inkling and Llama 2-13B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Inkling has 41 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-13B has 32.

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