# Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) vs Inkling

> Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-0-flash-vs-inkling
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher in 1 category and Inkling in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling leads 40.4 to 15.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 1.3% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and 36.5% for Inkling.
- Inkling has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Noometry Index | 35.1 | 44.1 |
| Rank | 228 | 80 |
| Context | — | 66K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.87 |
| Output $/M | — | $4.68 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)
- Inkling: 34.5 (#234)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 25.8% | 32.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1350 | 1464 |
| FrontierCode | — | 14% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 13.5% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 38.2% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1413 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 4.1% |
| SciCode | — | 47% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 63.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.9% | — |
| CadEval | 30% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 946 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)
- Inkling: 29.6 (#85)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 33.8% |
| TheAgentCompany | 11.4% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 25% |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)
- Inkling: 40.4 (#56)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | 36.5% |
| SimpleBench | 31.1% | 50% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1346 | 1451 |
| DTBench | 63.2% | 87.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.36 | 148.54 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 37.8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 79.5% |
| CritPt | — | 5.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 21% |
| EnigmaEval | 1.1% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 78.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.4% | — |
| LMCA | — | 37.6% |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |

## Math

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)
- Inkling: 31.3 (#225)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 88.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1352 | 1479 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 33.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 4.9% |
| ProofBench | — | 0% |
| Omni-MATH | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 75.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 82.2% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)
- Inkling: 55.1 (#49)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 64.1% | 88.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1339 | 1465 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 6.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 40.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 73.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 55.6% | — |
| MMLU | 79.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)
- Inkling: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1158 | — |
| GeoBench | 77% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)
- Inkling: 54.0 (#52)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1342 | 1434 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1373 | 1490 |
| LMArena French | 1391 | 1458 |
| LMArena German | 1353 | 1446 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1294 | 1429 |
| LMArena Korean | 1313 | 1404 |
| LMArena Russian | 1351 | 1429 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1363 | 1448 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)
- Inkling: 75.1 (#71)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1336 | 1426 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 85.8% | — |
| IFEval | 84.1% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)
- Inkling: 43.8 (#86)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1344 | 1434 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)
- Inkling: 65.2 (#51)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1354 | 1441 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1340 | 1387 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1128 | 1611 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1350 | 1436 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.8% | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1226 |
| LiveBench Language | 51.3% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better than Inkling?

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) or Inkling better for coding?

Inkling scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.5 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) and Inkling share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54 scored results on Noometry and Inkling has 41.