Model comparison
Inkling-Small vs StarCoder 2 3B
Inkling-Small has enough public results to be ranked (#57); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
NVIDIASummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Inkling-Small scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Inkling-Small leads 43.3 to 32.9.
Side by side
| Inkling-Small | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Thinking Machines Lab | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 46.5 | 35.8 |
| Released | 2026-07-15 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 524K | — |
| Max output | 1.05M | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.45 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.20 | — |
| Results tracked | 33 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Inkling-Small leads
Inkling-Small: 43.3 (#80), StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9
| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena WebDev | 1408 | — |
| SciCode | 48.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1451 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |
Reasoning Not comparable
Inkling-Small: 39.0 (#53), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150.13 | 88.01 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 40.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 84% | — |
| CritPt | 8.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 18% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1424 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 6% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Inkling-Small: 44.9 (#65), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 46.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 17.1% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 90% | — |
| ProofBench | 6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1453 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Inkling-Small: 48.3 (#71), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 88.5% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 19.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1442 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Inkling-Small: 38.4 (#59), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1235 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Inkling-Small: 51.7 (#102), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1400 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1458 | — |
| LMArena French | 1438 | — |
| LMArena German | 1412 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1399 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1355 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1392 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1426 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Inkling-Small: 73.9 (#112), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1397 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Inkling-Small: 42.7 (#113), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1401 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Inkling-Small: 59.8 (#102), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1413 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1330 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1491 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1420 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Inkling-Small better than StarCoder 2 3B?
Inkling-Small has enough public results to be ranked (#57); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Inkling-Small or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
Inkling-Small scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.3 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Inkling-Small and StarCoder 2 3B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Inkling-Small has 33 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.