# Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) vs Inkling

> Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-1-5-flash-vs-inkling
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and Inkling in 9 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Inkling leads 55.2 to 26.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and 88.9% for Inkling.
- Inkling has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Noometry Index | 32.9 | 44.1 |
| Rank | 240 | 75 |
| Context | — | 66K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.87 |
| Output $/M | — | $4.68 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233)
- Inkling: 34.1 (#229)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 24.9% | 32.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1262 | 1463 |
| FrontierCode | — | 14% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1412 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 4.1% |
| SciCode | — | 47% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.1% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 946 |
| HumanEval+ | 75.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 67.5% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97)
- Inkling: 29.5 (#76)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 33.8% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 25% |
| BALROG | 14.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212)
- Inkling: 40.6 (#48)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1257 | 1452 |
| DTBench | 53.8% | 87.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.37 | 148.6 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 36.5% |
| SimpleBench | — | 50% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 79.5% |
| CritPt | — | 5.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 21% |
| LMCA | — | 37.6% |
| ForecastBench | 53.9 | — |
| PIQA | 87.5% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274)
- Inkling: 31.2 (#198)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 16.3% | 88.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1269 | 1482 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 33.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 4.9% |
| ProofBench | — | 0% |
| Omni-MATH | 30.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 61.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | 82.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253)
- Inkling: 55.2 (#44)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.3% | 88.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1233 | 1468 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 40.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 67.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 43.7% | — |
| BoolQ | 85.8% | — |
| MMLU | 77.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76)
- Inkling: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| Video-MME | 70.3% | — |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184)
- Inkling: 54.2 (#49)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1278 | 1434 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1295 | 1495 |
| LMArena French | 1257 | 1453 |
| LMArena German | 1262 | 1456 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1252 | 1428 |
| LMArena Korean | 1220 | 1401 |
| LMArena Russian | 1288 | 1430 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1242 | 1442 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199)
- Inkling: 75.3 (#65)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1427 |
| IFEval | 83.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182)
- Inkling: 43.9 (#79)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1284 | 1436 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190)
- Inkling: 65.5 (#48)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1443 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1285 | 1390 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1253 | 1436 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1611 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1226 |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better than Inkling?

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) or Inkling better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (33.9 vs 34.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) and Inkling share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42 scored results on Noometry and Inkling has 41.