DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek
Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small

Thinking Machines Lab
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About

DeepSeek-R1 is an advanced open-source reasoning model developed by DeepSeek, designed to rival OpenAI's Model o1. Accessible via web, app, and API, it excels in complex tasks such as mathematics and coding, demonstrating superior performance on benchmarks like the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) and MATH. DeepSeek-R1 employs a mixture of experts (MoE) architecture with 671 billion total parameters, activating 37 billion parameters per token, enabling efficient and accurate reasoning capabilities. This model is part of DeepSeek's commitment to advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI) through open-source innovation.

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
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Researchers, developers, and organizations seeking advanced, open-source reasoning models for complex tasks like mathematics, programming, and AI-driven problem-solving

Audience

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

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

Free
Open source
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • DeepSeek-R1 is a remarkable AI model that has significantly enhanced my data analysis tasks. Its open-source nature allows for extensive customization, making it adaptable to various project needs. The model's performance is on par with leading AI models, yet it operates at a fraction of the cost, which is a substantial advantage. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1's integration capabilities with web, app, and API platforms provide flexibility in deployment across different environments.

Cons

  • Haven't found any cons yet. This model is so capable.

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
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

DeepSeek
Founded: 2023
China
www.deepseek.com

Company Information

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

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

01.AI
Amazon Bedrock
Amazon EKS
C++
CometAPI
DeepSeek
Devin Desktop
EaseMate AI
Eclipse PHP
Go
Java
Kotlin
Nily AI
Ontosight.ai
SQL
Scout
Semantic Kernel
SiliconFlow
Tinker
TypeScript

Integrations

01.AI
Amazon Bedrock
Amazon EKS
C++
CometAPI
DeepSeek
Devin Desktop
EaseMate AI
Eclipse PHP
Go
Java
Kotlin
Nily AI
Ontosight.ai
SQL
Scout
Semantic Kernel
SiliconFlow
Tinker
TypeScript
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