Inkling 2 Small

Inkling 2 Small

Thinking Machines Lab
SWE-2 Flash

SWE-2 Flash

Cognition
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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

SWE-2 Flash is an AI coding model developed by Cognition to provide fast, cost-efficient software engineering capabilities for autonomous development agents. Built on Thinking Machines' Inkling-Small foundation model, it uses mid-training and reinforcement learning to improve coding performance, reasoning, and task execution. The model supports software development activities such as code generation, code reviews, feature development, documentation updates, and automated engineering workflows. SWE-2 Flash generates approximately 200 tokens per second, making it three times faster and five times less expensive than the larger SWE-2 model. Its 276-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts architecture activates approximately 12 billion parameters during inference to balance performance and computational efficiency. SWE-2 Flash is available through Devin Desktop and CLI, with Cognition also developing a secure model-weight sharing program for trusted research and enterprise partners.

Platforms Supported

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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, AI coding assistant users, software engineering teams, DevOps professionals, autonomous agent developers, AI researchers, enterprise development organizations, and cybersecurity researchers seeking fast, cost-efficient AI coding, automated code reviews, feature implementation, software maintenance, technical reasoning, and agentic development workflows

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
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Online Supported

Support

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API

Offers API Supported

API

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Screenshots and Videos

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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
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Pricing

$20/month
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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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Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • This is the kind of model I would use all day for normal engineering work. It is fast enough that it does not feel like I am waiting on the model, but it is still strong enough for feature work, code review, docs, automations, and debugging. The speed is probably the biggest win. Cognition says it runs at around 200 tokens per second versus about 60 for SWE-2, and that difference matters a lot once an agent starts iterating through files and tools. The cost-performance balance is also really good. It is one-fifth the price of SWE-2, while scoring 45.5 on FrontierCode 1.1 Main, 60.1 on DeepSWE 1.1, and 89.9 on SWE-Bench Pro v2 Hard.

Cons

  • My main complaint is that it is not the model I would choose for the hardest repo-wide work. SWE-2 still has a noticeable edge on some tougher benchmarks, so I would move up when the task really needs it.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
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Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
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Company Information

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

Company Information

Cognition
Founded: 2023
United States
cognition.com

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Inkling 2 Small

Inkling 2 Small

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Inkling

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Inkling

Inkling

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C Supported
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CSS Supported
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Dart Supported
Go Supported
JavaScript Supported
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Kubernetes Supported
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