# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Inkling-Small

> Inkling-Small has enough public results to be ranked (#57); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-1-3b-vs-inkling-small
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 0 categories and Inkling-Small in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Inkling-Small leads 43.3 to 30.7.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Noometry Index | 34.5 | 46.5 |
| Rank | — | 57 |
| Context | — | 524K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.45 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.20 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 30.7 (#282)
- Inkling-Small: 43.3 (#80)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1408 |
| SciCode | — | 48.7% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1451 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Inkling-Small: 39.0 (#53)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 62.18 | 150.13 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 40.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 84% |
| CritPt | — | 8.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 18% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1424 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 6% |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Inkling-Small: 44.9 (#65)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 46.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 17.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 90% |
| ProofBench | — | 6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1453 |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Inkling-Small: 48.3 (#71)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 88.5% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 19.1% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1442 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Inkling-Small: 38.4 (#59)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1235 |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#102)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1400 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1458 |
| LMArena French | — | 1438 |
| LMArena German | — | 1412 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1399 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1355 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1392 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1426 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Inkling-Small: 73.9 (#112)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1397 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#113)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1401 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Inkling-Small: 59.8 (#102)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1413 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1330 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1491 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1420 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small has enough public results to be ranked (#57); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Inkling-Small better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.3 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Inkling-Small share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.