# Inkling vs Mistral

> Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/inkling-vs-mistral
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Inkling scores higher in 8 categories and Mistral in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Inkling leads 55.2 to 16.3.
- Inkling has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Inkling | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Thinking Machines Lab | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 44.1 | 29.4 |
| Rank | 75 | 297 |
| Context | 66K | — |
| Input $/M | $1.87 | — |
| Output $/M | $4.68 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Inkling: 34.1 (#229)
- Mistral: 33.2 (#249)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1463 | 1162 |
| FrontierCode | 14% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1412 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 4.1% | — |
| SciCode | 47% | — |
| WeirdML | 32.3% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 946 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Inkling: 29.5 (#76)
- Mistral: —

| Benchmark | Inkling | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 33.8% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 25% | — |

## Reasoning

- Inkling: 40.6 (#48)
- Mistral: 21.3 (#199)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1452 | 1149 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 36.5% | — |
| SimpleBench | 50% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 79.5% | — |
| CritPt | 5.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 21% | — |
| DTBench | 87.5% | — |
| LMCA | 37.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 148.6 | — |

## Math

- Inkling: 31.2 (#198)
- Mistral: 20.5 (#275)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1482 | 1180 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 33.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 4.9% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.9% | — |
| ProofBench | 0% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 7.2% |

## Knowledge

- Inkling: 55.2 (#44)
- Mistral: 16.3 (#283)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1468 | 1125 |
| GPQA Diamond | 88.3% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 40.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 30.3% |

## Multilingual

- Inkling: 54.2 (#49)
- Mistral: 33.0 (#249)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1434 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1495 | 1109 |
| LMArena French | 1453 | 1179 |
| LMArena German | 1456 | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1428 | 1012 |
| LMArena Korean | 1401 | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | 1430 | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1442 | 1143 |

## Instruction Following

- Inkling: 75.3 (#65)
- Mistral: 52.9 (#283)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1427 | 1152 |
| IFEval | — | 56.8% |

## Long Context

- Inkling: 43.9 (#79)
- Mistral: 35.0 (#240)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1436 | 1154 |

## Writing & Preference

- Inkling: 65.5 (#48)
- Mistral: 37.2 (#255)

| Benchmark | Inkling | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1443 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1390 | 1158 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1436 | 1147 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1611 | — |
| WildBench | — | 66% |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1226 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Inkling better than Mistral?

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Inkling or Mistral better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (34.1 vs 33.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Inkling and Mistral share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Inkling has 41 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.