Noometry

Model comparison

Inkling-Small vs o1-mini

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Inkling-Small Thinking Machines Lab

46.5

Rank #63 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Inkling-Small scores higher in 8 categories and o1-mini in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Inkling-Small leads 38.6 to 8.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 84% for Inkling-Small and 14% for o1-mini.
  • Inkling-Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Inkling-Smallo1-mini
ProviderThinking Machines LabOpenAI
Noometry Index46.534.0
Released2026-07-152024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window524K—
Max output1.05M—
Input $ / M tokens$0.45—
Output $ / M tokens$1.20—
Results tracked3339

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Category by category

Coding Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 43.6 (#85), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

BenchmarkInkling-Smallo1-mini
LMArena Coding14511362
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
LMArena WebDev1409—
SciCode48.7%—
WeirdML—36.3%
LiveBench Coding—48%
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Inkling-Small: —, o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

BenchmarkInkling-Smallo1-mini
Cybench—10%

Reasoning Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 38.6 (#63), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

BenchmarkInkling-Smallo1-mini
ARC-AGI-240.1%0.8%
ARC-AGI-184%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts14231333
Epoch Capabilities Index150.15135.82
SimpleBench—18.1%
CritPt8.3%—
Chess Puzzles18%—
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
LiveBench—57.8%

Math Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 45.1 (#77), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

BenchmarkInkling-Smallo1-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202590%46.9%
LMArena Math14591358
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)46.3%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
ProofBench6%—
LiveBench Math—62%
MATH Level 5—89.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 48.2 (#77), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

BenchmarkInkling-Smallo1-mini
GPQA Diamond88.5%62.4%
LMArena Expert14421316
SimpleQA Verified19.1%—
Confabulations—18.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Inkling-Small: 39.1 (#62), o1-mini: —

BenchmarkInkling-Smallo1-mini
LMArena Vision1235—

Multilingual Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#104), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

BenchmarkInkling-Smallo1-mini
LMArena Non-English14021289
LMArena Chinese14651314
LMArena French14361293
LMArena German14051278
LMArena Japanese14051245
LMArena Korean13631223
LMArena Russian13911283
LMArena Spanish14281303

Instruction Following Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 73.8 (#114), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

BenchmarkInkling-Smallo1-mini
LMArena Instruction Following13991304
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%

Long Context Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#118), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

BenchmarkInkling-Smallo1-mini
LMArena Longer Query14011320

Writing & Preference Inkling-Small leads

Inkling-Small: 59.6 (#107), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

BenchmarkInkling-Smallo1-mini
LMArena Text14141317
LMArena Creative Writing13311244
LMArena Multi-Turn14181314
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1491—
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Inkling-Small better than o1-mini?

Inkling-Small is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.5 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Inkling-Small or o1-mini better for coding?

Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.6 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Inkling-Small and o1-mini share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Inkling-Small has 33 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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