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Model comparison

Inkling vs Nova Premier 1.0

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Inkling Thinking Machines Lab

44.1

Rank #80 Confirmed

Nova Premier 1.0 Amazon

38.3

Rank #189 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Inkling leads 55.1 to 35.8.
  • Inkling is cheaper at $1.87 / $4.68 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $12.50 for Nova Premier 1.0.
  • Nova Premier 1.0 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 66K.
  • Inkling has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

InklingNova Premier 1.0
ProviderThinking Machines LabAmazon
Noometry Index44.138.3
Released2026-07-152025-04-30
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window66K1M
Max output66K10K
Input $ / M tokens$1.87$2.50
Output $ / M tokens$4.68$12.50
Results tracked416

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Inkling: 34.5 (#234), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkInklingNova Premier 1.0
FrontierCode14%—
LMArena WebDev1413—
FrontierSWE4.1%—
SciCode47%—
WeirdML32.3%—
LMArena Coding1464—
ALE-Bench946—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Inkling: 29.6 (#85), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkInklingNova Premier 1.0
APEX-Agents33.8%—
τ²-bench Banking25%—

Reasoning Inkling leads

Inkling: 40.4 (#56), Nova Premier 1.0: 23.0 (#185)

BenchmarkInklingNova Premier 1.0
ARC-AGI-236.5%—
SimpleBench50%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—44.8%
ARC-AGI-179.5%—
CritPt5.4%—
Chess Puzzles21%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1451—
DTBench87.5%—
LMCA37.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index148.54—

Math Nova Premier 1.0 leads

Inkling: 31.3 (#225), Nova Premier 1.0: 33.8 (#199)

BenchmarkInklingNova Premier 1.0
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)33.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.9%—
ProofBench0%—
Omni-MATH—35%
LMArena Math1479—

Knowledge Inkling leads

Inkling: 55.1 (#49), Nova Premier 1.0: 35.8 (#180)

BenchmarkInklingNova Premier 1.0
GPQA Diamond88.3%—
SimpleQA Verified40.3%—
MMLU-Pro—72.6%
GPQA (HELM)—51.8%
LMArena Expert1465—

Multilingual Not comparable

Inkling: 54.0 (#52), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkInklingNova Premier 1.0
LMArena Non-English1434—
LMArena Chinese1490—
LMArena French1458—
LMArena German1446—
LMArena Japanese1429—
LMArena Korean1404—
LMArena Russian1429—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Inkling leads

Inkling: 75.1 (#71), Nova Premier 1.0: 66.8 (#204)

BenchmarkInklingNova Premier 1.0
IFEval—80.3%
LMArena Instruction Following1426—

Long Context Not comparable

Inkling: 43.8 (#86), Nova Premier 1.0: —

BenchmarkInklingNova Premier 1.0
LMArena Longer Query1434—

Writing & Preference Inkling leads

Inkling: 65.2 (#51), Nova Premier 1.0: 51.0 (#178)

BenchmarkInklingNova Premier 1.0
LMArena Text1441—
LMArena Creative Writing1387—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1611—
WildBench—78.8%
EQ-Bench 41226—
LMArena Multi-Turn1436—

Frequently asked questions

Is Inkling better than Nova Premier 1.0?

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 38.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Inkling or Nova Premier 1.0?

Inkling is cheaper. It lists at $1.87 per million input tokens and $4.68 per million output tokens; Nova Premier 1.0 lists at $2.50 and $12.50.

Which has the bigger context window?

Nova Premier 1.0 does, with 1M tokens against 66K.

How many benchmarks do Inkling and Nova Premier 1.0 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Inkling has 41 scored results on Noometry and Nova Premier 1.0 has 6.

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