Model comparison

Gemini 3 Pro vs Inkling-Small

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 46.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Inkling-Small Thinking Machines Lab

46.5

Rank #63 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Pro scores higher in 9 categories and Inkling-Small in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 57.6 to 39.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 20% for Gemini 3 Pro and 6% for Inkling-Small.
  • Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Pro and Inkling-Small specifications
Gemini 3 ProInkling-Small
ProviderGoogleThinking Machines Lab
Noometry Index54.846.5
Released2025-11-182026-07-15
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—524K
Max output—1.05M
Input $ / M tokens—$0.45
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked6733

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39), Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProInkling-Small
LMArena WebDev14401409
LMArena Coding14811451
SWE-bench Verified72.9%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)74.2%—
SWE-bench Multilingual68.7%—
SciCode—48.7%
GSO18.6%—
WeirdML69.9%—
ALE-Bench1,177—
AlgoTune1.83—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23), Inkling-Small: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProInkling-Small
Terminal-Bench69.4%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard72.5%—
GDPval40.3%—
Remote Labor Index1.3%—
τ²-bench Airline80.5%—
τ²-bench Banking18%—
τ²-bench Retail75.9%—
τ²-bench Telecom91%—
DeepResearch Bench46.3%—
BALROG58.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons71%—
Vending-Bench 25,478—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31), Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProInkling-Small
ARC-AGI-231.1%40.1%
ARC-AGI-175%84%
CritPt6.9%8.3%
Chess Puzzles31%18%
LMArena Hard Prompts14801423
Epoch Capabilities Index152.92150.15
SimpleBench76.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.4%—
EnigmaEval18.2%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—6%
ForecastBench61.2—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59), Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16), Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProInkling-Small
GPQA Diamond92.6%88.5%
LMArena Expert14751442
Humanity's Last Exam37.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—19.1%
MMLU-Pro90.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.6%—
GPQA (HELM)80.3%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2), Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Vision13051235
GeoBench84%—
VPCT91%—
LMArena Document1434—

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16), Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Non-English14741402
LMArena Chinese15231465
LMArena French14921436
LMArena German15151405
LMArena Japanese15101405
LMArena Korean14481363
LMArena Russian14931391
LMArena Spanish14701428

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45), Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Instruction Following14581399
IFEval87.7%—

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79), Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Longer Query14711401
CL-bench15.8%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35), Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGemini 3 ProInkling-Small
LMArena Text14791414
LMArena Creative Writing14821331
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15251491
LMArena Multi-Turn14841418
WildBench85.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Pro better than Inkling-Small?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 46.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Gemini 3 Pro or Inkling-Small better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 43.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Pro and Inkling-Small share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Pro has 67 scored results on Noometry and Inkling-Small has 33.

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