Kimi K3 beats Inkling on five benchmarks, but the size gap is huge
echen · x · 2026-07-24
A comparison chart shows Kimi K3 versus Thinking Machines' Inkling across several benchmarks.
- The author notes the comparison is not apples-to-apples because K3 has 2.8T parameters while Inkling has 975B.
- The chart highlights K3 ahead on all shown benchmarks, including:
- Antidote: 1077 vs 985 Elo
- HANDBOOK.md: 11.9% vs 1.9%
- Chartography: 26.6% vs 3.4%
- Riemann-bench: 37.6% vs 15.2%
- ComplexConstraints: 37.9% vs 0.3%
The post is basically a benchmark snapshot with a size caveat, not a full technical analysis.
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