# Inkling vs Llama 4 Maverick

> Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 8.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Inkling's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/inkling-vs-llama-4-maverick
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 30

## Summary

- They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Inkling scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling leads 40.4 to 10.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 79.5% for Inkling and 4.4% for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $1.87 / $4.68 for Inkling.
- Llama 4 Maverick accepts more context: 128K tokens versus 66K.

## Snapshot

| | Inkling | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Thinking Machines Lab | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 44.1 | 30.9 |
| Rank | 80 | 282 |
| Context | 66K | 128K |
| Input $/M | $1.87 | $0.19 |
| Output $/M | $4.68 | $0.65 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Inkling: 34.5 (#234)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 47% | 33.1% |
| WeirdML | 32.3% | 24.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1464 | 1302 |
| ALE-Bench | 946 | 172.97 |
| FrontierCode | 14% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 21% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 15.6% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1413 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 4.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 61.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Inkling: 29.6 (#85)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 33.8% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.3% |
| τ²-bench Banking | 25% | — |

## Reasoning

- Inkling: 40.4 (#56)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 36.5% | 0% |
| SimpleBench | 50% | 27.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 79.5% | 4.4% |
| CritPt | 5.4% | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1451 | 1281 |
| DTBench | 87.5% | 61.9% |
| LMCA | 37.6% | 15.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 148.54 | 132.2 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.9% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 8% |
| Chess Puzzles | 21% | — |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.6% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |

## Math

- Inkling: 31.3 (#225)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.9% | 20.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1479 | 1299 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 33.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 4.9% | — |
| ProofBench | 0% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 42.2% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 73% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |

## Knowledge

- Inkling: 55.1 (#49)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 88.3% | 67% |
| LMArena Expert | 1465 | 1259 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.7% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 40.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 8.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65% |

## Multimodal

- Inkling: —
- Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1142 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 31.8% |

## Multilingual

- Inkling: 54.0 (#52)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1434 | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1490 | 1277 |
| LMArena French | 1458 | 1259 |
| LMArena German | 1446 | 1291 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1429 | 1207 |
| LMArena Korean | 1404 | 1203 |
| LMArena Russian | 1429 | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1448 | 1293 |

## Instruction Following

- Inkling: 75.1 (#71)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1426 | 1267 |
| IFEval | — | 90.8% |

## Long Context

- Inkling: 43.8 (#86)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1434 | 1280 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 46.2% |

## Writing & Preference

- Inkling: 65.2 (#51)
- Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1441 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1387 | 1267 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1611 | 860 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1436 | 1289 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62% |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1226 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Inkling better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 8.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Inkling's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Inkling or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; Inkling lists at $1.87 and $4.68.

### Is Inkling or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Inkling scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.5 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Llama 4 Maverick does, with 128K tokens against 66K.

### How many benchmarks do Inkling and Llama 4 Maverick share?

30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Inkling has 41 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.