Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small

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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

Phi-4-mini-reasoning is a 3.8-billion parameter transformer-based language model optimized for mathematical reasoning and step-by-step problem solving in environments with constrained computing or latency. Fine-tuned with synthetic data generated by the DeepSeek-R1 model, it balances efficiency with advanced reasoning ability. Trained on over one million diverse math problems spanning multiple levels of difficulty from middle school to Ph.D. level, Phi-4-mini-reasoning outperforms its base model on long sentence generation across various evaluations and surpasses larger models like OpenThinker-7B, Llama-3.2-3B-instruct, and DeepSeek-R1. It features a 128K-token context window and supports function calling, enabling integration with external tools and APIs. Phi-4-mini-reasoning can be quantized using Microsoft Olive or Apple MLX Framework for deployment on edge devices such as IoT, laptops, and mobile devices.

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

Developers wanting an AI model for educational tools and embedded tutoring

Support

Phone Support
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Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
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API

Offers API

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 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

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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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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

Microsoft
Founded: 1975
United States
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/one-year-of-phi-small-language-models-making-big-leaps-in-ai/

Alternatives

Alternatives

Phi-4-reasoning

Phi-4-reasoning

Microsoft
Inkling

Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab
DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek

Categories

Categories

Integrations

Hugging Face
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry Models
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Tinker

Integrations

Hugging Face
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry Models
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Tinker
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