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Kimi K3 vs Inkling 2 Small

Kimi K3 leads Inkling 2 Small on coding, 61.4 to 48.9 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Inkling 2 Small costs 15.0x less per output token ($1.00 vs $15.00 per million). Updated November 14, 2026; 48 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Kimi K3 Replace Inkling 2 Small
Kimi K3Moonshot AI
Coding
61.4
Overall
61.2
Output $/M
$15.00
32
T Inkling 2 SmallThinking Machines
Coding
48.9
Overall
56.9
Output $/M
$1.00
16
vs boards won of 48 shared

Kimi K3 or Inkling 2 Small: which to pick

Pick Kimi K3 for coding: it scores 61.4 on the Vibe Coding Index against 48.9 for Inkling 2 Small.

Pick Inkling 2 Small for output tokens 15.0x cheaper ($1.00 vs $15.00 per million) and work measured by Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Artificial Analysis run) or FrontierCode 2.0, where it leads.

Model AKimi K3Moonshot AI61.4/1006 independent benchmarks$0.81 per solved taskModel BInkling 2 SmallThinking Machines48.9/1003 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved task
Shared results
48
Kimi K3 only
85
Inkling 2 Small only
3
Like-for-like categories
7 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
Kimi K3 61.4 from 6 benchmarks, Inkling 2 Small 48.9 from 3 benchmarks.
Widest category
Intelligence, 13.2 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
Widest single gap
ARC-AGI-2: Kimi K3 60.4% against Inkling 2 Small 81.7%, 21.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Kimi K3 $15.00 against Inkling 2 Small $1.00 per million output tokens, 15.0x apart.
Context window
Both take 1.05M tokens.

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
CategoryKimi K3BarsInkling 2 SmallTies
Coding113
Intelligence01
Agentic work25
Reasoning53
Math10
Knowledge21
General113
All shared boards3216
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index113
Coding benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Inkling 2 Small
BenchmarkKimi K3Inkling 2 SmallLeader
LiveBench coding53.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena WebDev16581647Kimi K3
AA Coding Index72.0Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)87.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)93.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)17.2%12.6%Kimi K3
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)85.0%81.5%Kimi K3
Code migration (Vals AI)16.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)2.0%0.5%Kimi K3
IOI (Vals AI)48.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)80.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI)44.2%43.1%Kimi K3
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)18.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)75.2%72.7%Kimi K3
SciCode59.5%52.3%Kimi K3
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Artificial Analysis run)12.6%13.1%Inkling 2 Small
FrontierCode 2.010.9%25.4%Inkling 2 Small
FrontierCode44.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
FrontierSWE25.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
WeirdML82.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
MirrorCode54.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ALE-Bench1524.5Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: coding15061455Kimi K3
LMArena Text: software and IT14971443Kimi K3
LMArena WebDev: React16721660Kimi K3
LMArena WebDev: HTML16401661Inkling 2 Small
LMArena WebDev: from an image1586Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SWE-Bench Pro V297.7%97.7%Kimi K3
GameBench 249.8Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Terminal-Bench 4.022.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
Intelligence benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Inkling 2 Small
BenchmarkKimi K3Inkling 2 SmallLeader
AA Intelligence Index17.430.6Inkling 2 Small
Epoch Capabilities Index158.6Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index25
Agentic work benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Inkling 2 Small
BenchmarkKimi K3Inkling 2 SmallLeader
AA Agentic Index29.3Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building web apps1273Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1290Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1253Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1256Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1200Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: agents building games1198Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: HTML slides1151Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides1223Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: spreadsheets1068Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench research79.8%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench browser75.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench long agentic36.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SREBench (Vals AI)Not measured1.9%Only Inkling 2 Small measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)53.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)33.4%38.9%Inkling 2 Small
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)46.1%46.6%Inkling 2 Small
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)12.9%21.7%Inkling 2 Small
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)66.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
BioMysteryBench (Vals AI)72.6%70.0%Kimi K3
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)1.4%2.9%Inkling 2 Small
Vals Science IndexNot measured32.7%Only Inkling 2 Small measured
Time Horizon Index (Vals AI)10.5%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
APEX-Agents47.8%46.8%Kimi K3
PostTrainBench31.5%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Vending-Bench 2$5,165Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
MCP Atlas82.3%85.4%Inkling 2 Small
Toolathlon-Verified76.5%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
τ³-Banking37.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index53
Reasoning benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Inkling 2 Small
BenchmarkKimi K3Inkling 2 SmallLeader
GPQA Diamond92.9%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench reasoning90.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
MysteryMechanism (Vals AI)Not measured25.2%Only Inkling 2 Small measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)88.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)93.5%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)46.9%44.1%Kimi K3
HLE-Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)26.9%28.7%Inkling 2 Small
CritPt v2, hard subset (Artificial Analysis run)40.5%35.0%Kimi K3
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)93.1%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ARC-AGI94.5%96.5%Inkling 2 Small
ARC-AGI-260.4%81.7%Inkling 2 Small
SimpleBench60.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Chess puzzles37.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Mystery game puzzles26.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14941421Kimi K3
LMArena Text: expert15151478Kimi K3
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14931424Kimi K3
Humanity's Last Exam (Scale run)22.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Math benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Inkling 2 Small
BenchmarkKimi K3Inkling 2 SmallLeader
OTIS Mock AIME97.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 372.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
FrontierMath, tier 439.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
ProofBench87.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: math1496Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: mathematical work1507Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
MathArena42.9%42.4%Kimi K3
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index21
Knowledge benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Inkling 2 Small
BenchmarkKimi K3Inkling 2 SmallLeader
MMLU Pro88.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)86.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)71.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)75.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)66.3%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)49.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
AA-Omniscience-1.716.1Inkling 2 Small
SimpleQA Verified50.6%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: science15021409Kimi K3
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare1488Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: legal and government1498Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: business and finance14691415Kimi K3
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Inkling 2 Small
BenchmarkKimi K3Inkling 2 SmallLeader
Design Arena: websites1336Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: UI components1340Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: game dev1353Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: data viz1350Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: 3D1364Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: all code categories1351Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Design Arena: SVG1296Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LiveBench design72.5%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index113
General benchmarks for Kimi K3 and Inkling 2 Small
BenchmarkKimi K3Inkling 2 SmallLeader
Vals Index53.0%56.1%Inkling 2 Small
LiveBench data analysis78.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)68.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)86.8%88.6%Inkling 2 Small
MedScribe (Vals AI)88.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Vals Multimodal Index73.4%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)88.7%83.3%Kimi K3
GDPval-AA15421630Inkling 2 Small
DTBench91.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMCA52.7%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Surface Evolver Bench95.0%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
Furniture assembly34.2%Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text14751403Kimi K3
LMArena Text: instruction following14841408Kimi K3
LMArena Text: creative writing14531348Kimi K3
LMArena Text: English14791418Kimi K3
LMArena Text: non-English14651390Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Chinese1527Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: German1483Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: Japanese1495Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: Korean1444Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: French1482Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: Spanish1477Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: Russian14811377Kimi K3
LMArena Text: Polish1472Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 measured
LMArena Text: multi-turn14891408Kimi K3
LMArena Text: longer queries14901403Kimi K3
LMArena Text: writing and language14681381Kimi K3
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14501359Kimi K3
EQ-Bench 41319Not measuredOnly Kimi K3 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 Kimi K3 and Inkling 2 Small
BenchmarkKimi K3Inkling 2 SmallLeader
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

Kimi K3$0.011Fits in one request
Inkling 2 Small$0.0008Fits in one request

Inkling 2 Small costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Kimi K3$0.195Fits in one request
Inkling 2 Small$0.018Fits in one request

Inkling 2 Small costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Kimi K3$0.750Fits in one request
Inkling 2 Small$0.070Fits in one request

Inkling 2 Small 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 Kimi K3 and Inkling 2 Small
SpecificationMoonshotAI Kimi K3Thinking Machines Inkling 2 Small
MakerMoonshot AIThinking Machines
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedJuly 16, 2026November 9, 2026
Context window1.05M1.05M
Input $/Mtok$3.00$0.30
Output $/Mtok$15.00$1.00
Coding index61.448.9
Independent measurements behind it63
Cost per solved task$0.81Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Kimi K3 better than Inkling 2 Small for coding?

Pick Kimi K3 for coding: it scores 61.4 on the Vibe Coding Index against 48.9 for Inkling 2 Small. Pick Inkling 2 Small for output tokens 15.0x cheaper ($1.00 vs $15.00 per million) and work measured by Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Artificial Analysis run) or FrontierCode 2.0, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, Kimi K3 or Inkling 2 Small?

Kimi K3 costs $3.00 per million input tokens and $15.00 per million output tokens; Inkling 2 Small costs $0.30 and $1.00. Cost per solved task is known for Kimi K3 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K3 or Inkling 2 Small?

Neither: both take 1.05M tokens.

How many benchmarks is the Kimi K3 vs Inkling 2 Small comparison based on?

48 benchmarks have a result for both models as of November 14, 2026. Kimi K3's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and Inkling 2 Small's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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