Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small

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About

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is Google’s fastest model in the Gemini 3.5 series, designed for low-latency tasks and high-throughput developer workflows such as agentic search, document processing, coding, and large-scale data analysis. It delivers 350 output tokens per second and significantly improves on previous Flash-Lite generations in both quality and agentic performance. Developers can configure its thinking level to match the workload: minimal or low thinking supports fast execution for high-volume tasks, while higher thinking levels enable more complex, multi-step subagent workflows. Built-in computer-use capabilities allow the model to interact reliably with digital environments across supported surfaces. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite also advances coding, long-context understanding, and real-world task execution, outperforming Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite across key evaluations and even surpassing Gemini 3 Flash on several agentic and software-engineering benchmarks.

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

Ecommerce data teams that need fast multimodal AI for processing, extracting, and summarizing large volumes of product information

Audience

Developers, AI agent builders, software engineering teams, research teams, enterprise AI teams, multimodal application developers, coding assistant builders, tool-use workflow teams, and organizations that need efficient reasoning, long-context processing, text-image-audio understanding, adjustable thinking effort, coding performance, and scalable Mixture-of-Experts inference

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
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Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

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Pricing

$0.30 per 1M input tokens
$0.30/1M input tokens and $2.50/1M output tokens
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 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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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

Documentation
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Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Google
Founded: 1998
United States
gemini.google.com

Company Information

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

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.NET
Agent Search on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
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C#
Gemini Enterprise
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
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HTML
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Kotlin
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