Model comparison

Inkling vs Llama 2-70B

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Inkling Thinking Machines Lab

44.1

Rank #80 Confirmed

Llama 2-70B Meta

24.4

Rank #349 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Inkling scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Inkling leads 55.1 to 7.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 88.9% for Inkling and 0% for Llama 2-70B.

Side by side

Inkling and Llama 2-70B specifications
InklingLlama 2-70B
ProviderThinking Machines LabMeta
Noometry Index44.124.4
Released2026-07-152023-07-18
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window66K—
Max output66K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.87—
Output $ / M tokens$4.68—
Results tracked4135

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Category by category

Coding Inkling leads

Inkling: 34.5 (#234), Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-70B
LMArena Coding14641079
FrontierCode14%—
LMArena WebDev1413—
FrontierSWE4.1%—
SciCode47%—
WeirdML32.3%—
ALE-Bench946—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Inkling: 29.6 (#85), Llama 2-70B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-70B
APEX-Agents33.8%—
τ²-bench Banking25%—

Reasoning Inkling leads

Inkling: 40.4 (#56), Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-70B
LMArena Hard Prompts14511073
DTBench87.5%41.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index148.54113.79
ARC-AGI-236.5%—
SimpleBench50%—
ARC-AGI-179.5%—
CritPt5.4%—
Chess Puzzles21%—
LMCA37.6%—
BIG-Bench Hard—64.9%
CommonsenseQA 2.0—50%
ForecastBench—51.4
HellaSwag—85.3%
LAMBADA—78.9%
PIQA—82.8%
WinoGrande—80.2%

Math Inkling leads

Inkling: 31.3 (#225), Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-70B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.9%0%
LMArena Math14791091
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)33.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
ProofBench0%—
MATH Level 5—3.3%
GSM8K—69.6%

Knowledge Inkling leads

Inkling: 55.1 (#49), Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-70B
GPQA Diamond88.3%26.3%
LMArena Expert14651039
SimpleQA Verified40.3%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—78.3%
BoolQ—88.6%
MMLU—69.9%
OpenBookQA—60.2%
TriviaQA—87.6%

Multilingual Inkling leads

Inkling: 54.0 (#52), Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-70B
LMArena Non-English14341045
LMArena Chinese1490995
LMArena French14581090
LMArena German14461041
LMArena Japanese1429927
LMArena Korean1404964
LMArena Russian14291083
LMArena Spanish14481143

Instruction Following Inkling leads

Inkling: 75.1 (#71), Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-70B
LMArena Instruction Following14261071

Long Context Inkling leads

Inkling: 43.8 (#86), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-70B
LMArena Longer Query14341062

Writing & Preference Inkling leads

Inkling: 65.2 (#51), Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkInklingLlama 2-70B
LMArena Text14411115
LMArena Creative Writing13871075
LMArena Multi-Turn14361088
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1611—
EQ-Bench 41226—

Frequently asked questions

Is Inkling better than Llama 2-70B?

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Inkling or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Inkling scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.5 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Inkling and Llama 2-70B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Inkling has 41 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.

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