Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small

Thinking Machines Lab
Ling 3.0 Flash

Ling 3.0 Flash

Ant Group
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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.

About

Ling 3.0 Flash is a next-generation efficient language model designed for long-horizon agent workflows, combining fast response, low activation, and stable tool use. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 124 billion total parameters and 5.1 billion activated parameters per token, providing capability while keeping inference efficient. The model supports a native 256K context window that can be extended up to 1 million tokens, with reliable retrieval across information placed at the beginning, middle, or end of long contexts. Compared with the previous Flash model, Ling 3.0 Flash improves stability on extended tasks, tool-calling accuracy, instruction following, compatibility with agent harnesses, and coding performance. Its optimized spatial understanding can construct physical scene grids and reason about relative positions, while hybrid reasoning improves success rates across tasks of varying difficulty.

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, 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

Audience

Autonomous software testing teams that need a fast model for long-running tool-based coding and verification workflows

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

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

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5

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
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

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

Company Information

Ant Group
Founded: 2014
China
www.ant-ling.com

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Categories

Categories

Integrations

Claude Code
Hermes Agent
Kilo Code
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
OpenClaw
OpenRouter
Tinker
ZenMux

Integrations

Claude Code
Hermes Agent
Kilo Code
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
OpenClaw
OpenRouter
Tinker
ZenMux
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