# Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Inkling-Small

> Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 39.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gemini-2-5-flash-vs-inkling-small
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 24

## Summary

- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.5 Flash scores higher in 4 categories and Inkling-Small in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling-Small leads 38.6 to 18.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 33.3% for Gemini 2.5 Flash and 84% for Inkling-Small.
- Inkling-Small is cheaper at $0.45 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $0.30 / $2.50 for Gemini 2.5 Flash.
- Gemini 2.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 524K.
- Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Google | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Noometry Index | 39.3 | 46.5 |
| Rank | 170 | 63 |
| Context | 1.05M | 524K |
| Input $/M | $0.30 | $0.45 |
| Output $/M | $2.50 | $1.20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 35.8 (#220)
- Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1424 | 1451 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 28.7% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 55.1% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1409 |
| SciCode | — | 48.7% |
| WeirdML | 41.9% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 661.88 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 30.8 (#74)
- Inkling-Small: —

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 17.1% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 56.2% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | 41.1% | — |
| BALROG | 33.5% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 548.84 | — |

## Reasoning

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 18.1 (#286)
- Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 2.5% | 40.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 33.3% | 84% |
| CritPt | 1.1% | 8.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1422 | 1423 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 143.03 | 150.15 |
| SimpleBench | 41.2% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 56.8% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 18% |
| EnigmaEval | 2.7% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 6% |
| DTBench | 76.5% | — |
| LMCA | 27.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.6 | — |

## Math

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 39.9 (#98)
- Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 73.1% | 90% |
| LMArena Math | 1415 | 1459 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 46.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 17.1% |
| ProofBench | — | 6% |
| Omni-MATH | 38.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 36.4 (#168)
- Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1426 | 1442 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 88.5% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 12.1% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 19.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 63.9% | — |
| Confabulations | 16.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 39% | — |

## Multimodal

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 41.8 (#32)
- Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1253 | 1235 |
| GeoBench | 76% | — |
| VPCT | 46.2% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 36.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 52.3 (#88)
- Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1409 | 1402 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1450 | 1465 |
| LMArena French | 1433 | 1436 |
| LMArena German | 1418 | 1405 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1405 | 1405 |
| LMArena Korean | 1385 | 1363 |
| LMArena Russian | 1415 | 1391 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1421 | 1428 |

## Instruction Following

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 75.7 (#54)
- Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1405 | 1399 |
| IFEval | 89.8% | — |

## Long Context

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 47.5 (#17)
- Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1419 | 1401 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 77.8% | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Gemini 2.5 Flash: 53.8 (#157)
- Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107)

| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Flash | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1417 | 1414 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1400 | 1331 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1137 | 1491 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1408 | 1418 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.5% | — |
| WildBench | 81.7% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Gemini 2.5 Flash better than Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 39.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash or Inkling-Small?

Inkling-Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.45 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Flash lists at $0.30 and $2.50.

### Is Gemini 2.5 Flash or Inkling-Small better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 35.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 2.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 524K.

### How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.5 Flash and Inkling-Small share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.5 Flash has 54 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.