Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small

Thinking Machines Lab
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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

Qwen3‑Coder is an agentic code model available in multiple sizes, led by the 480B‑parameter Mixture‑of‑Experts variant (35B active) that natively supports 256K‑token contexts (extendable to 1M) and achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on Agentic Coding, Browser‑Use, and Tool‑Use tasks comparable to Claude Sonnet 4. Pre‑training on 7.5T tokens (70 % code) and synthetic data cleaned via Qwen2.5‑Coder optimized both coding proficiency and general abilities, while post‑training employs large‑scale, execution‑driven reinforcement learning and long‑horizon RL across 20,000 parallel environments to excel on multi‑turn software‑engineering benchmarks like SWE‑Bench Verified without test‑time scaling. Alongside the model, the open source Qwen Code CLI (forked from Gemini Code) unleashes Qwen3‑Coder in agentic workflows with customized prompts, function calling protocols, and seamless integration with Node.js, OpenAI SDKs, and more.

Platforms Supported

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Audience

AI researchers and developers seeking an efficient open-weight multimodal model for reasoning, agentic tasks, and lower-cost deployment

Audience

AI researchers and software engineers interested in a tool providing an agentic coding model with large‑context support and turnkey CLI tools for real‑world, and automated code generation

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
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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 and $1.20 per million output tokens
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Pricing

Free
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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 Supported
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Training

Documentation Supported
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Company Information

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

Company Information

Qwen
Founded: 2023
China
github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code

Alternatives

Alternatives

Inkling

Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab
MiMo Code

MiMo Code

Xiaomi Technology
Beam

Beam

Reflection

Categories

AI Coding Models Supported
AI Models Supported
AI Vision Models Supported

Categories

Agentic AI Supported
AI Coding Agents Supported

Integrations

Alibaba AI Coding Plan Not Supported
Claude Fable 5 Not Supported
Claude Fable 5.1 Not Supported
Claude Fable 5.5 Not Supported
Claude Opus 4.6 Not Supported
Claude Opus 4.8 Not Supported
Claude Opus 5 Not Supported
Claude Sonnet 4 Not Supported
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Not Supported
Melaya Not Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Supported
Node.js Not Supported
OpenAI Not Supported
Qwen 4 Not Supported
Qwen2.5 Not Supported
Qwen3.7-Max Not Supported
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Not Supported
QwenCloud Not Supported
Step 5 Preview Not Supported
Tinker Supported

Integrations

Alibaba AI Coding Plan Supported
Claude Fable 5 Supported
Claude Fable 5.1 Supported
Claude Fable 5.5 Supported
Claude Opus 4.6 Supported
Claude Opus 4.8 Supported
Claude Opus 5 Supported
Claude Sonnet 4 Supported
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Supported
Melaya Supported
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Not Supported
Node.js Supported
OpenAI Supported
Qwen 4 Supported
Qwen2.5 Supported
Qwen3.7-Max Supported
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Supported
QwenCloud Supported
Step 5 Preview Supported
Tinker Not Supported
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