Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small

Thinking Machines Lab
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About

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic’s mid-tier Claude 5.5 model designed for fast, well-scoped everyday work, coding, and professional document creation. Anthropic says it runs more than 30% faster than Claude Sonnet 5 and typically costs up to 30% less per task while keeping the same base token pricing. The model shows major gains in agentic coding, with a 70.6% score on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and stronger performance on FrontierCode and CursorBench than its predecessor. Sonnet 5.5 also performs strongly on knowledge work, computer use, chart understanding, and long-horizon tasks, in some cases approaching Claude Opus 5.5 at higher effort settings. Anthropic positions it as especially useful for debugging, routine coding, collaboration, and producing polished documents, slides, spreadsheets, and user interfaces. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is available across Anthropic’s platforms as well as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

About

Inkling-Small is an efficient model that offers performance comparable to Inkling at a quarter of its size. It is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active parameters, trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems. It supports native reasoning across text, images, and audio, variable thinking effort, and context windows of up to one million tokens. Users adjust reasoning effort from minimal to extra high to balance performance and compute. Improved pre-training data, post-training with on-policy distillation from Inkling, and extended agentic coding reinforcement learning helped Inkling-Small surpass its larger counterpart on reasoning and coding benchmarks. It performs well in coding and tool-use harnesses, exceeds 80% on SWE-bench Verified, and combines strong reasoning with efficient output. Its encoder-free multimodal architecture processes audio as dMel spectrograms and images as 40-by-40-pixel patches alongside text tokens.

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Audience

Developers, knowledge workers, analysts, business teams, and organizations that want a fast, capable, and relatively cost-efficient AI model for coding, professional work, design-heavy tasks, document creation, and everyday agentic workflows

Audience

AI researchers and developers seeking an efficient open-weight multimodal model for reasoning, agentic tasks, and lower-cost deployment

Support

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Pricing

$2 per 1M tokens (input)
$2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

Cache reads, which account for most costs in agentic and coding workloads, are priced at just $0.10 per million tokens
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Pricing

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens
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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • I can give it a normal development task and it tends to get to the answer with less wandering, fewer unnecessary tool calls, and less back-and-forth than Sonnet 5. Coding is where I notice the improvement the most. It is really good for feature work, fixing bugs, refactoring, and the everyday engineering tasks where I want something fast and capable without automatically reaching for Opus. The speed is another big advantage. Sonnet 5.5 feels better suited to rapid iteration because I can make a change, test it, adjust the prompt, and keep moving without the slower pace I sometimes get from heavier reasoning models.

Cons

  • The main downside is that I would still move up to Opus 5.5 for really messy architecture problems, long autonomous agent runs, or tasks where I want maximum reasoning depth.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Inkling-Small is really interesting from a developer’s point of view because it hits a sweet spot between serious model capability and practical deployability. A 276B-parameter model with only 12B active parameters per token is exactly the kind of architecture that makes sense if you care about cost, speed, and scaling real AI workflows. I also like that it is open weights under Apache 2.0. That makes it way more appealing for developers who want to fine-tune, inspect, customize, or build on top of the model without being completely locked into a closed API. The multimodal support is a big plus too. Being able to work with text, images, and audio inputs gives Inkling-Small a lot of room for developer tools, coding agents, support bots, document workflows, and internal automation.

Cons

  • The main downside is that “small” here is still not tiny. Even with only 12B active parameters, this is still a large open model that will require real infrastructure if you want to host it yourself. I would also want to test it deeply before making it the backbone of a production coding agent. The model card and early coverage look promising, but real developer workflows expose problems that benchmarks do not always catch: messy repos, flaky tests, weird dependencies, tool failures, and long multi-step tasks.

Training

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Company Information

Anthropic
Founded: 2021
United States
claude.ai

Company Information

Thinking Machines Lab
Founded: 2025
United States
thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-small/

Alternatives

Alternatives

Inkling

Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab
Claude Sonnet 4

Claude Sonnet 4

Anthropic
Beam

Beam

Reflection

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
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Integrations

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
.NET Not Supported
Biela.dev Not Supported
Claude Agent SDK Not Supported
ClickUp Brain Not Supported
DataGrip Not Supported
Databricks Not Supported
Devin Not Supported
GitHub Not Supported
Go Not Supported
Java Not Supported
Kubernetes Not Supported
Muse Not Supported
OpenCode Not Supported
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Swift Not Supported
TypeScript Not Supported
WebStorm Not Supported
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