# Inkling-Small vs o3-mini

> Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-o3-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 29

## Summary

- They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Inkling-Small scores higher in 7 categories and o3-mini in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling-Small leads 39.0 to 16.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 84% for Inkling-Small and 34.5% for o3-mini.
- Inkling-Small is cheaper at $0.45 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $1.10 / $4.40 for o3-mini.
- Inkling-Small accepts more context: 524K tokens versus 200K.
- Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Inkling-Small | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Thinking Machines Lab | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 46.5 | 36.7 |
| Rank | 57 | 205 |
| Context | 524K | 200K |
| Input $/M | $0.45 | $1.10 |
| Output $/M | $1.20 | $4.40 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Inkling-Small: 43.3 (#80)
- o3-mini: 41.4 (#116)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 48.7% | 39.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1451 | 1378 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 60.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1408 | — |
| GSO | — | 1.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 43.7% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 82.7% |
| CadEval | — | 54% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Inkling-Small: —
- o3-mini: 29.3 (#79)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 22.5% |

## Reasoning

- Inkling-Small: 39.0 (#53)
- o3-mini: 16.3 (#295)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 40.1% | 3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 84% | 34.5% |
| CritPt | 8.3% | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | 18% | 17% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1424 | 1366 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 6% | 7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150.13 | 140.35 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 89.6% |
| DTBench | — | 68.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 70.6% |
| LMCA | — | 19% |
| ForecastBench | — | 59.6 |
| LiveBench | — | 75.9% |

## Math

- Inkling-Small: 44.9 (#65)
- o3-mini: 27.6 (#236)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 46.3% | 18.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 17.1% | 0% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 90% | 76.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1453 | 1396 |
| ProofBench | 6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 96.5% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 12.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |

## Knowledge

- Inkling-Small: 48.3 (#71)
- o3-mini: 38.3 (#135)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 88.5% | 77% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 19.1% | 15.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1442 | 1364 |
| Confabulations | — | 17.9% |

## Multimodal

- Inkling-Small: 38.4 (#59)
- o3-mini: —

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1235 | — |

## Multilingual

- Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#102)
- o3-mini: 45.9 (#159)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1400 | 1319 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1458 | 1379 |
| LMArena French | 1438 | 1333 |
| LMArena German | 1412 | 1303 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1399 | 1286 |
| LMArena Korean | 1355 | 1314 |
| LMArena Russian | 1392 | 1304 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1426 | 1321 |

## Instruction Following

- Inkling-Small: 73.9 (#112)
- o3-mini: 75.3 (#67)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1397 | 1338 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 84.4% |

## Long Context

- Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#113)
- o3-mini: 33.8 (#251)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1401 | 1343 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 50% |

## Writing & Preference

- Inkling-Small: 59.8 (#102)
- o3-mini: 50.4 (#177)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1413 | 1337 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1330 | 1286 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1420 | 1320 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 61.7% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1491 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 50.7% |

## FAQ

### Is Inkling-Small better than o3-mini?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Which is cheaper, Inkling-Small or o3-mini?

Inkling-Small is cheaper. It lists at $0.45 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; o3-mini lists at $1.10 and $4.40.

### Is Inkling-Small or o3-mini better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.3 versus 41.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Inkling-Small does, with 524K tokens against 200K.

### How many benchmarks do Inkling-Small and o3-mini share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Inkling-Small has 33 scored results on Noometry and o3-mini has 51.