# Amazon Nova Pro vs Inkling-Small

> Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-pro-vs-inkling-small
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Inkling-Small in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Inkling-Small leads 48.3 to 27.1.
- Inkling-Small is cheaper at $0.45 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $3.20 for Amazon Nova Pro.
- Inkling-Small accepts more context: 524K tokens versus 300K.
- Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Pro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Noometry Index | 30.5 | 46.5 |
| Rank | 278 | 57 |
| Context | 300K | 524K |
| Input $/M | $0.80 | $0.45 |
| Output $/M | $3.20 | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Pro: 34.6 (#224)
- Inkling-Small: 43.3 (#80)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1270 | 1451 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1408 |
| SciCode | — | 48.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.1% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Pro: 16.6 (#139)
- Inkling-Small: —

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 25% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 1.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Pro: 19.2 (#240)
- Inkling-Small: 39.0 (#53)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1424 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 123.75 | 150.13 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 40.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 84% |
| CritPt | — | 8.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 18% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.6% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.3% | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Pro: 26.4 (#240)
- Inkling-Small: 44.9 (#65)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1252 | 1453 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 46.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 17.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 90% |
| ProofBench | — | 6% |
| Omni-MATH | 24.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 38% | — |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Pro: 27.1 (#246)
- Inkling-Small: 48.3 (#71)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1211 | 1442 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 88.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.4% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 19.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 30.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 44.6% | — |
| MMLU | 82% | — |

## Multimodal

- Amazon Nova Pro: 24.5 (#121)
- Inkling-Small: 38.4 (#59)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 980 | 1235 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Pro: 39.9 (#218)
- Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#102)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1234 | 1400 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1244 | 1458 |
| LMArena French | 1270 | 1438 |
| LMArena German | 1243 | 1412 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1200 | 1399 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1355 |
| LMArena Russian | 1240 | 1392 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1182 | 1426 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Pro: 65.1 (#221)
- Inkling-Small: 73.9 (#112)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1235 | 1397 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 67.1% | — |
| IFEval | 81.5% | — |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Pro: 38.1 (#199)
- Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#113)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1255 | 1401 |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Pro: 44.1 (#221)
- Inkling-Small: 59.8 (#102)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Pro | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1259 | 1413 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1212 | 1330 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1245 | 1420 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 60.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1491 |
| WildBench | 77.7% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 37% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Pro better than Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Amazon Nova Pro or Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.45 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Amazon Nova Pro lists at $0.80 and $3.20.

### Is Amazon Nova Pro or Inkling-Small better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.3 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Inkling-Small does, with 524K tokens against 300K.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Pro and Inkling-Small share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Pro has 38 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.