Inkling 2 Small

Inkling 2 Small

Thinking Machines Lab
MiniMax M3.1 Flash

MiniMax M3.1 Flash

MiniMax
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About

Inkling 2 Small is a multimodal AI model developed by Thinking Machines Lab for advanced reasoning, autonomous software engineering, visual understanding, and AI agent development. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters to balance intelligence and computational efficiency. It supports text and image inputs, a context window of up to one million tokens, and configurable reasoning effort for tasks requiring different levels of analysis. Its agentic capabilities enable autonomous code generation, debugging, website development, scientific research, and complex multistep workflows involving external tools. Inkling 2 Small also supports fine-tuning and reinforcement learning through Thinking Machines Lab's Tinker platform, allowing developers to customize the model for specialized applications.

About

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is a hosted large language model for developers building coding assistants, AI agents, and software applications. Available through MiniMax’s API and MiniMax Code, it accepts text, image, and video input and generates text responses. Documented uses include code generation and debugging, multi-step reasoning, tool use, codebase and document analysis, and computer-use workflows. The API offers a context window of up to 1 million tokens, adjustable reasoning effort, and OpenAI-compatible and Anthropic-compatible request formats. Usage is billed by input, output, and cached-input tokens. MiniMax provides documentation for API integration and model use. M3.1 Flash is available through the hosted API, M Plan, and MiniMax Code; model weights are planned for a later release.

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

AI developers, machine learning engineers, software developers, autonomous agent researchers, data scientists, AI research laboratories, DevOps professionals, computational scientists, enterprise AI teams, and organizations seeking multimodal language models, long-context reasoning, AI coding agents, reinforcement learning, model fine-tuning, visual understanding, and autonomous research capabilities

Audience

Software developers and organizations building coding assistants, AI agents, and applications that use a hosted language model.

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 Not Supported

API

Offers API Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens, $0.03 per million cached input tokens, and $1.00 per million output tokens
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

$0.15/1M input tokens
Input: $0.15 per 1 million tokens; output: $0.60 per 1 million tokens; cached input: $0.015 per 1 million tokens. Standard pay-as-you-go billing in USD, based on token usage.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

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ease 0.0 / 5
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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It feels noticeably faster than M3 while still being strong enough for coding, research, computer-use tasks, and longer agent workflows. The 1M-token context window is a big advantage too. I can keep large repos, long documents, screenshots, video context, and a lot of prior agent history in the same session without constantly trimming things down. The pricing is probably the best part. At $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens, I can run it heavily without worrying that every agent loop is getting expensive. I also like how much MiniMax improved the agent side. M3.1 Flash is aimed at real multi-step work across coding, enterprise automation, computer use, and even cybersecurity, rather than just fast chat responses.

Cons

  • The main downside is that reasoning is always enabled, so it is not quite as lightweight as a pure instant-response model for trivial 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

Thinking Machines Lab
Founded: 2025
United States
thinkingmachines.ai/

Company Information

MiniMax
Founded: 2022
China
www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-m31f

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Categories

Categories

AI Coding Models Supported
AI Models Supported
Foundation Models Supported
Multimodal Models Supported

Integrations

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
APIFree Not Supported
Alibaba AI Coding Plan Not Supported
BLACKBOX AI Not Supported
Claude Code Not Supported
Clawd.run Not Supported
Cline Not Supported
ClinePass Not Supported
Factory Droid Not Supported
Hermes Agent Not Supported
Kilo Code Not Supported
MaxHermes Not Supported
MiniMax Agent Not Supported
MiniMax Code Not Supported
OpenClaw Not Supported
OpenCode Go Not Supported
OpenTag Not Supported
Roo Code Not Supported
Tinker Supported
Together AI Not Supported

Integrations

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
APIFree Supported
Alibaba AI Coding Plan Supported
BLACKBOX AI Supported
Claude Code Supported
Clawd.run Supported
Cline Supported
ClinePass Supported
Factory Droid Supported
Hermes Agent Supported
Kilo Code Supported
MaxHermes Supported
MiniMax Agent Supported
MiniMax Code Supported
OpenClaw Supported
OpenCode Go Supported
OpenTag Supported
Roo Code Supported
Tinker Not Supported
Together AI Supported
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