Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small

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About

Command A Reasoning is Cohere’s most advanced enterprise-ready language model, engineered for high-stakes reasoning tasks and seamless integration into AI agent workflows. The model delivers exceptional reasoning performance, efficiency, and controllability, scaling across multi-GPU setups with support for up to 256,000-token context windows, ideal for handling long documents and multi-step agentic tasks. Organizations can fine-tune output precision and latency through a token budget, allowing a single model to flexibly serve both high-accuracy and high-throughput use cases. It powers Cohere’s North platform with leading benchmark performance and excels in multilingual contexts across 23 languages. Designed with enterprise safety in mind, it balances helpfulness with robust safeguards against harmful outputs. A lightweight deployment option allows running the model securely on a single H100 or A100 GPU, simplifying private, scalable use.

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

AI teams searching for a solution to power their enterprise applications through reasoning performance, efficiency, and controllability

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

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens
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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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Training

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Company Information

Cohere AI
Founded: 2019
Canada
cohere.com/blog/command-a-reasoning

Company Information

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

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