# Inkling-Small vs QwQ-32B

> Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Inkling-Small scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling-Small leads 38.6 to 23.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 90% for Inkling-Small and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.

## Snapshot

| | Inkling-Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Thinking Machines Lab | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 46.5 | 39.8 |
| Rank | 63 | 159 |
| Context | 524K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.45 | — |
| Output $/M | $1.20 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85)
- QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1451 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1409 | — |
| SciCode | 48.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |

## Reasoning

- Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63)
- QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 18% | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1423 | 1325 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150.15 | 137.6 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 40.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 84% | — |
| CritPt | 8.3% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77)
- QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 90% | 59.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1459 | 1359 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 46.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 17.1% | — |
| ProofBench | 6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |

## Knowledge

- Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 88.5% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1442 | 1324 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 19.1% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |

## Multimodal

- Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1235 | — |

## Multilingual

- Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104)
- QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1402 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1465 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1436 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1405 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1405 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1363 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1391 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1428 | 1354 |

## Instruction Following

- Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114)
- QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1399 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |

## Long Context

- Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1401 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107)
- QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1414 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1331 | 1288 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1491 | 1257 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1418 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Inkling-Small better than QwQ-32B?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Inkling-Small or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Inkling-Small and QwQ-32B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Inkling-Small has 33 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.