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Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Inkling

Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads Inkling on coding, 43.7 to 31.5 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs 1.3x less per output token ($3.00 vs $4.05 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 44 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Gemini 3 Flash Preview Replace Inkling
Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle
Coding
43.7
Overall
55.0
Output $/M
$3.00
30
T InklingThinking Machines
Coding
31.5
Overall
46.5
Output $/M
$4.05
13
vs boards won of 44 shared, 1 tied

Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Inkling: which to pick

Pick Gemini 3 Flash Preview for coding: it scores 43.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 31.5 for Inkling, though on 2 benchmarks against 6.

Pick Inkling for work measured by SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) or Code migration (Vals AI), where it leads.

Model AGemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle43.7/1002 independent benchmarks$0.37 per solved taskModel BInklingThinking Machines31.5/1006 independent benchmarks$0.76 per solved task
Shared results
44
Gemini 3 Flash Preview only
27
Inkling only
58
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
Gemini 3 Flash Preview 43.7 from 2 benchmarks, Inkling 31.5 from 6 benchmarks.
Widest category
Math, 12.9 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
WeirdML: Gemini 3 Flash Preview 61.6% against Inkling 32.3%, 29.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Gemini 3 Flash Preview $3.00 against Inkling $4.05 per million output tokens, 1.3x apart.
Context window
Gemini 3 Flash Preview takes 1.05M tokens, Inkling 524K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGemini 3 Flash PreviewBarsInklingTies
Coding521 tie
Intelligence10
Agentic work05
Reasoning81
Math40
Knowledge52
Web design22
General51
All shared boards30131 tie
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index52
Coding benchmarks for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Inkling
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewInklingLeader
SWE-bench Verified75.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
LiveBench codingNot measured64.0%Only Inkling measured
LMArena WebDevNot measured1414Only Inkling measured
AA Coding IndexNot measured52.1Only Inkling measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)85.6%85.5%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)75.0%77.6%Inkling
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)Not measured0.5%Only Inkling measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)20.2%19.2%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Code migration (Vals AI)6.4%11.8%Inkling
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.0%0.0%Tie
IOI (Vals AI)Not measured14.9%Only Inkling measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)53.9%47.6%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)Not measured7.3%Only Inkling measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)Not measured26.1%Only Inkling measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)Not measured66.8%Only Inkling measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)90.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
SciCodeNot measured47.0%Only Inkling measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)38.6%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
Terminal-Bench64.3%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
FrontierCodeNot measured14.0%Only Inkling measured
FrontierSWENot measured4.1%Only Inkling measured
GSO-Bench9.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
WeirdML61.6%32.3%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
ALE-Bench1367.2946.0Gemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Text: codingNot measured1466Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: software and ITNot measured1465Only Inkling measured
LMArena WebDev: ReactNot measured1404Only Inkling measured
LMArena WebDev: HTMLNot measured1399Only Inkling measured
SciCode12.7%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Intelligence benchmarks for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Inkling
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewInklingLeader
AA Intelligence Index26.325.0Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Epoch Capabilities IndexNot measured148.4Only Inkling measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
Agentic work benchmarks for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Inkling
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewInklingLeader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured22.5Only Inkling measured
Design Arena: agents building web apps11111196Inkling
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1063Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1090Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1051Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1161Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides1036Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
LiveBench researchNot measured59.9%Only Inkling measured
LiveBench browserNot measured16.0%Only Inkling measured
LiveBench long agenticNot measured14.1%Only Inkling measured
SREBench (Vals AI)Not measured0.0%Only Inkling measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)42.5%46.6%Inkling
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)11.8%15.3%Inkling
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)18.3%28.4%Inkling
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured3.8%Only Inkling measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)26.0%38.4%Inkling
τ²-Bench Telecom80.4%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
APEX-AgentsNot measured33.8%Only Inkling measured
BALROG48.1%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
DeepResearch Bench49.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
Vending-Bench 2$3,635Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index81
Reasoning benchmarks for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Inkling
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewInklingLeader
GPQA Diamond87.9%87.1%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
LiveBench reasoningNot measured78.3%Only Inkling measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)87.6%78.5%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)89.8%87.2%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)36.6%31.9%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)89.4%88.3%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
ARC-AGI84.7%79.5%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
ARC-AGI-233.6%36.5%Inkling
SimpleBench61.1%50.0%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Chess puzzles39.0%21.0%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Mystery game puzzles26.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
VPCT72.6%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
LMArena Text: hard promptsNot measured1451Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: expertNot measured1466Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts in EnglishNot measured1448Only Inkling measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Math benchmarks for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Inkling
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewInklingLeader
AIME95.6%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
MGSM (Vals AI)93.3%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
AA Math Index97.0Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)97.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
OTIS Mock AIME95.6%88.9%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 351.2%33.3%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
FrontierMath, tier 417.1%4.9%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
ProofBench15.0%0.0%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena Text: mathNot measured1479Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: mathematical workNot measured1460Only Inkling measured
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index52
Knowledge benchmarks for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Inkling
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewInklingLeader
MMLU Pro88.6%86.3%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
LegalBench (Vals AI)86.9%83.0%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
CaseLaw (Vals AI)55.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)66.4%68.6%Inkling
TaxEval (Vals AI)73.9%75.3%Inkling
MortgageTax (Vals AI)68.7%64.0%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
MedQA (Vals AI)95.8%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
MedCode (Vals AI)55.9%41.2%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)89.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
SimpleQA Verified66.8%40.3%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
GeoBench88.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
LMArena Text: scienceNot measured1455Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcareNot measured1447Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: legal and governmentNot measured1448Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: business and financeNot measured1438Only Inkling measured
FACTS Benchmark Suite63.4%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index22
Web design benchmarks for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Inkling
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewInklingLeader
Design Arena: websites11961224Inkling
Design Arena: UI componentsNot measured1198Only Inkling measured
Design Arena: game dev11661165Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Design Arena: data vizNot measured1156Only Inkling measured
Design Arena: 3D11831160Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Design Arena: all code categories11891205Inkling
Design Arena: SVGNot measured1108Only Inkling measured
Design Arena: ASCII artNot measured1089Only Inkling measured
LiveBench designNot measured58.3%Only Inkling measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index51
General benchmarks for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Inkling
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewInklingLeader
Vals IndexNot measured29.0%Only Inkling measured
LiveBench data analysisNot measured72.8%Only Inkling measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)Not measured58.5%Only Inkling measured
SAGE (Vals AI)51.8%36.5%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
MedScribe (Vals AI)69.9%85.4%Inkling
Vals Multimodal Index52.2%49.4%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
IFBench78.0%Not measuredOnly Gemini 3 Flash Preview measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)78.0%77.3%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
DTBench89.1%87.5%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
LMCA43.1%37.6%Gemini 3 Flash Preview
LMArena TextNot measured1442Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: instruction followingNot measured1425Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: creative writingNot measured1390Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: EnglishNot measured1442Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: non-EnglishNot measured1434Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: ChineseNot measured1493Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: GermanNot measured1445Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: JapaneseNot measured1429Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: KoreanNot measured1403Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: FrenchNot measured1455Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: SpanishNot measured1449Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: RussianNot measured1430Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: PolishNot measured1450Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: multi-turnNot measured1437Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: longer queriesNot measured1435Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: writing and languageNot measured1404Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: entertainment and mediaNot measured1394Only Inkling measured
Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Inkling
BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewInklingLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

Gemini 3 Flash Preview$0.0020Fits in one request
Inkling$0.0030Fits in one request

Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Gemini 3 Flash Preview$0.034Fits in one request
Inkling$0.061Fits in one request

Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Gemini 3 Flash Preview$0.130Fits in one request
Inkling$0.235Fits in one request

Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Inkling
SpecificationGoogle Gemini 3 Flash PreviewThinking Machines Inkling
MakerGoogleThinking Machines
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedDecember 17, 2025July 17, 2026
Context window1.05M524K
Input $/Mtok$0.50$0.975
Output $/Mtok$3.00$4.05
Coding index43.731.5
Independent measurements behind it26
Cost per solved task$0.37$0.76
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Inkling for coding?

Pick Gemini 3 Flash Preview for coding: it scores 43.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 31.5 for Inkling, though on 2 benchmarks against 6. Pick Inkling for work measured by SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) or Code migration (Vals AI), where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Inkling?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $3.00 per million output tokens; Inkling costs $0.975 and $4.05. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Gemini 3 Flash Preview costs $0.37 and Inkling $0.76.

Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Inkling?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview, with 1.05M tokens against 524K.

How many benchmarks is the Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Inkling comparison based on?

44 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Gemini 3 Flash Preview's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and Inkling's on 6. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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