Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small

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About

Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google’s most intelligent Flash workhorse model, delivering significant improvements over 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and critical multi-step reasoning in specialized domains. Built for long-horizon coding and autonomous agents, it can solve complex engineering problems end to end and delivers the dependability required for critical enterprise autonomy across specialized knowledge domains. The model shows stronger performance in quantitative and professional fields that require advanced analysis and reporting, as well as multi-step reasoning across STEM, humanities, and professional subjects. Its gains stem from a core design choice: Gemini 3.8 Flash works harder on complex tasks, executing additional reasoning steps and calling tools iteratively to maximize performance. At higher effort levels, it may use more tokens to pursue stronger results, while developers can select lower effort levels.

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

Developers, enterprises, and professional users wanting to build autonomous agents, solve complex coding tasks, and perform advanced multi-step reasoning across specialized domains

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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API

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Pricing

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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

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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

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Training

Documentation
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Company Information

Google
United States
google.com

Company Information

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

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Integrations

C++
Dart
Gemini
Gemini Enterprise
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Google AI Mode
Google AI Studio
HTML
Java
JavaScript
JetBrains Junie
Kotlin
Kubernetes
OfoxAI
PHP
Ruby
SQL
Tinker
XML
YAML
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