Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite vs Inkling

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite Google

37.3

Rank #189 Confirmed

Inkling Thinking Machines Lab

44.1

Rank #75 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher in 2 categories and Inkling in 6 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Inkling leads 55.2 to 34.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and 87.5% for Inkling.
  • Inkling has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling
ProviderGoogleThinking Machines Lab
Noometry Index37.344.1
Released2025-02-052026-07-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—66K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.87
Output $ / M tokens—$4.68
Results tracked3241

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.4 (#181), Inkling: 34.1 (#229)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling
LMArena Coding13221463
FrontierCode—14%
LMArena WebDev—1412
FrontierSWE—4.1%
SciCode—47%
WeirdML—32.3%
LiveBench Coding47.1%—
ALE-Bench—946

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —, Inkling: 29.5 (#76)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling
APEX-Agents—33.8%
τ²-bench Banking—25%

Reasoning Inkling leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 21.2 (#203), Inkling: 40.6 (#48)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling
LMArena Hard Prompts13241452
DTBench52.5%87.5%
ARC-AGI-2—36.5%
SimpleBench—50%
ARC-AGI-1—79.5%
CritPt—5.4%
Chess Puzzles—21%
LiveBench Reasoning50.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis65.5%—
LMCA—37.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—148.6
ForecastBench57.1—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Too close to call

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.8 (#192), Inkling: 31.2 (#198)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling
LMArena Math13091482
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—33.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4—4.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—88.9%
ProofBench—0%
Omni-MATH37.4%—
LiveBench Math58.1%—

Knowledge Inkling leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.6 (#185), Inkling: 55.2 (#44)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling
LMArena Expert13051468
GPQA Diamond—88.3%
SimpleQA Verified—40.3%
MMLU-Pro72%—
GPQA (HELM)50%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 30.6 (#103), Inkling: —

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling
LMArena Vision1100—

Multilingual Inkling leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.2 (#156), Inkling: 54.2 (#49)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling
LMArena Non-English13231434
LMArena Chinese13391495
LMArena French13461453
LMArena German13061456
LMArena Japanese13021428
LMArena Korean13251401
LMArena Russian13281430
LMArena Spanish13131442

Instruction Following Inkling leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.6 (#158), Inkling: 75.3 (#65)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling
LMArena Instruction Following13051427
LiveBench Instruction Following78.3%—
IFEval82.4%—

Long Context Inkling leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#155), Inkling: 43.9 (#79)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling
LMArena Longer Query13211436

Writing & Preference Inkling leads

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.9 (#172), Inkling: 65.5 (#48)

BenchmarkGemini 2.0 Flash-LiteInkling
LMArena Text13301443
LMArena Creative Writing13191390
LMArena Multi-Turn13071436
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1611
WildBench79%—
EQ-Bench 4—1226
LiveBench Language34.3%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better than Inkling?

Inkling is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite or Inkling better for coding?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.4 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Inkling share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32 scored results on Noometry and Inkling has 41.

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