# Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) vs Inkling-Small

> Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

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

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher in 0 categories and Inkling-Small in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling-Small leads 38.6 to 12.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 23.1% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and 90% for Inkling-Small.
- Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Noometry Index | 32.1 | 46.5 |
| Rank | 261 | 63 |
| Context | — | 524K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.45 |
| Output $/M | — | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)
- Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1294 | 1451 |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1409 |
| SciCode | — | 48.7% |
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 43.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.5% | — |
| CadEval | 34% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 79.3% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)
- Inkling-Small: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 3.4% | — |
| Cybench | 7.5% | — |
| BALROG | 21% | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)
- Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.8% | 40.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1296 | 1423 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 131.73 | 150.15 |
| SimpleBench | 27.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 84% |
| CritPt | — | 8.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 18% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 6% |
| DTBench | 59% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 89.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |

## Math

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)
- Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 23.1% | 90% |
| LMArena Math | 1315 | 1459 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 46.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 17.1% |
| ProofBench | — | 6% |
| Omni-MATH | 36.4% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 70.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)
- Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 57.2% | 88.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1279 | 1442 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 19.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.5% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.4% | — |
| MMLU | 86.9% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)
- Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1161 | 1235 |
| Video-MME | 75% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)
- Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1312 | 1402 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1331 | 1465 |
| LMArena French | 1302 | 1436 |
| LMArena German | 1286 | 1405 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1292 | 1405 |
| LMArena Korean | 1298 | 1363 |
| LMArena Russian | 1320 | 1391 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1311 | 1428 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)
- Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1399 |
| IFEval | 83.7% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)
- Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1308 | 1401 |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)
- Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107)

| Benchmark | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1319 | 1414 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | 1331 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1296 | 1418 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1491 |
| WildBench | 81.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better than Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) or Inkling-Small better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) and Inkling-Small share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.