CodeGemma

CodeGemma

Google
Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small

Thinking Machines Lab
5.0 out of 5 stars
+
+

Related Products

  • Google AI Studio
    4.8 out of 5 stars 42 Ratings
    Visit Website for Google AI Studio
  • Retool
    4.6 out of 5 stars 608 Ratings
    Visit Website for Retool
  • Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
    4.3 out of 5 stars 1,178 Ratings
    Visit Website for Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
  • XpertCoding
    4.7 out of 5 stars 42 Ratings
    Visit Website for XpertCoding
  • Google Cloud BigQuery
    4.5 out of 5 stars 2,037 Ratings
    Visit Website for Google Cloud BigQuery
  • TrustInSoft Analyzer
    4.3 out of 5 stars 6 Ratings
    Visit Website for TrustInSoft Analyzer
  • Epicor Connected Process Control
    4.9 out of 5 stars 4 Ratings
    Visit Website for Epicor Connected Process Control
  • Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    4.5 out of 5 stars 446 Ratings
    Visit Website for Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
  • Checksum.ai
    5.0 out of 5 stars 2 Ratings
    Visit Website for Checksum.ai
  • Google Cloud Run
    4.5 out of 5 stars 352 Ratings
    Visit Website for Google Cloud Run

About

CodeGemma is a collection of powerful, lightweight models that can perform a variety of coding tasks like fill-in-the-middle code completion, code generation, natural language understanding, mathematical reasoning, and instruction following. CodeGemma has 3 model variants, a 7B pre-trained variant that specializes in code completion and generation from code prefixes and/or suffixes, a 7B instruction-tuned variant for natural language-to-code chat and instruction following; and a state-of-the-art 2B pre-trained variant that provides up to 2x faster code completion. Complete lines, and functions, and even generate entire blocks of code, whether you're working locally or using Google Cloud resources. Trained on 500 billion tokens of primarily English language data from web documents, mathematics, and code, CodeGemma models generate code that's not only more syntactically correct but also semantically meaningful, reducing errors and debugging time.

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.

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Individuals wanting a solution to generate code and optimize their coding tasks

Audience

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

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review:

Review this Software

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5

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

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Google
United States
ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/codegemma

Company Information

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

Alternatives

Codestral Mamba

Codestral Mamba

Mistral AI

Alternatives

Muse Spark Open

Muse Spark Open

Meta
5.0 out of 5 stars
GPT-5.6 Luna

GPT-5.6 Luna

OpenAI
5.0 out of 5 stars
MedGemma

MedGemma

Google DeepMind
Inkling

Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab
Inkling 2 Small

Inkling 2 Small

Thinking Machines Lab
Gemma 2

Gemma 2

Google
SWE-2 Flash

SWE-2 Flash

Cognition
5.0 out of 5 stars

Categories

Categories

Integrations

C Supported
C# Supported
CSS Supported
Clojure Supported
Elixir Supported
F# Supported
GaiaNet Supported
Go Supported
Google Cloud Platform Supported
HTML Supported
Java Supported
JavaScript Supported
Kaggle Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Not Supported
R Supported
Ruby Supported
Rust Supported
SQL Supported
Scala Supported
TypeScript Supported

Integrations

C Not Supported
C# Not Supported
CSS Not Supported
Clojure Not Supported
Elixir Not Supported
F# Not Supported
GaiaNet Not Supported
Go Not Supported
Google Cloud Platform Not Supported
HTML Not Supported
Java Not Supported
JavaScript Not Supported
Kaggle Not Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
R Not Supported
Ruby Not Supported
Rust Not Supported
SQL Not Supported
Scala Not Supported
TypeScript Not Supported
Claim CodeGemma and update features and information
Claim CodeGemma and update features and information
Claim Inkling-Small and update features and information
Claim Inkling-Small and update features and information