Model comparison
Inkling vs phi-3-medium 14B
Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Inkling scores higher in 2 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Inkling leads 55.1 to 9.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 88.3% for Inkling and 27.6% for phi-3-medium 14B.
Side by side
| Inkling | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Thinking Machines Lab | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 44.1 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2026-07-15 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 66K | — |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.87 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $4.68 | — |
| Results tracked | 41 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding phi-3-medium 14B leads
Inkling: 34.5 (#234), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
| Benchmark | Inkling | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 14% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1413 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 4.1% | — |
| SciCode | 47% | — |
| WeirdML | 32.3% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1464 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
| ALE-Bench | 946 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Inkling: 29.6 (#85), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 33.8% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 25% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Inkling: 40.4 (#56), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 148.54 | 121.23 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 36.5% | — |
| SimpleBench | 50% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 79.5% | — |
| CritPt | 5.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 21% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1451 | — |
| DTBench | 87.5% | — |
| LMCA | 37.6% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math Inkling leads
Inkling: 31.3 (#225), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | Inkling | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 33.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 4.9% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.9% | — |
| ProofBench | 0% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1479 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |
Knowledge Inkling leads
Inkling: 55.1 (#49), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | Inkling | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 88.3% | 27.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 40.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1465 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Inkling: 54.0 (#52), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1434 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1490 | — |
| LMArena French | 1458 | — |
| LMArena German | 1446 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1429 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1404 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1429 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1448 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Inkling: 75.1 (#71), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1426 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Inkling: 43.8 (#86), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1434 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Inkling: 65.2 (#51), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1441 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1387 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1611 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1226 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1436 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Inkling better than phi-3-medium 14B?
Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Inkling or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
phi-3-medium 14B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.8 versus 34.5 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Inkling and phi-3-medium 14B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Inkling has 41 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.