# Inkling-Small vs Llama 2-70B

> Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-llama-2-70b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Inkling-Small scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 2-70B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Inkling-Small leads 48.2 to 7.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 90% for Inkling-Small and 0% for Llama 2-70B.

## Snapshot

| | Inkling-Small | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Thinking Machines Lab | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 46.5 | 24.4 |
| Rank | 63 | 349 |
| Context | 524K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.45 | — |
| Output $/M | $1.20 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85)
- Llama 2-70B: 31.4 (#286)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1451 | 1079 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1409 | — |
| SciCode | 48.7% | — |

## Reasoning

- Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63)
- Llama 2-70B: 14.4 (#325)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1423 | 1073 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150.15 | 113.79 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 40.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 84% | — |
| CritPt | 8.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 18% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 6% | — |
| DTBench | — | 41.6% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 64.9% |
| CommonsenseQA 2.0 | — | 50% |
| ForecastBench | — | 51.4 |
| HellaSwag | — | 85.3% |
| LAMBADA | — | 78.9% |
| PIQA | — | 82.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.2% |

## Math

- Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77)
- Llama 2-70B: 8.1 (#326)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 90% | 0% |
| LMArena Math | 1459 | 1091 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 46.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 17.1% | — |
| ProofBench | 6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 3.3% |
| GSM8K | — | 69.6% |

## Knowledge

- Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77)
- Llama 2-70B: 7.4 (#310)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 88.5% | 26.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1442 | 1039 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 19.1% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 78.3% |
| BoolQ | — | 88.6% |
| MMLU | — | 69.9% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 60.2% |
| TriviaQA | — | 87.6% |

## Multimodal

- Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62)
- Llama 2-70B: —

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1235 | — |

## Multilingual

- Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104)
- Llama 2-70B: 27.7 (#274)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1402 | 1045 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 995 |
| LMArena French | 1436 | 1090 |
| LMArena German | 1405 | 1041 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1405 | 927 |
| LMArena Korean | 1363 | 964 |
| LMArena Russian | 1391 | 1083 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1428 | 1143 |

## Instruction Following

- Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114)
- Llama 2-70B: 54.9 (#278)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1399 | 1071 |

## Long Context

- Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118)
- Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#270)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1401 | 1062 |

## Writing & Preference

- Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107)
- Llama 2-70B: 32.3 (#279)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Llama 2-70B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1414 | 1115 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1331 | 1075 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | 1088 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1491 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Inkling-Small better than Llama 2-70B?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 24.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Inkling-Small or Llama 2-70B better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Inkling-Small and Llama 2-70B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Inkling-Small has 33 scored results on Noometry and Llama 2-70B has 35.