Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small

Thinking Machines Lab
SWE-2 Flash

SWE-2 Flash

Cognition
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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

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.

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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

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

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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

$20/month
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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

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

  • 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.

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

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Company Information

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

Company Information

Cognition
Founded: 2023
United States
cognition.com

Alternatives

Alternatives

Inkling

Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab
GPT-6.1 Sol

GPT-6.1 Sol

OpenAI
SWE-2 Flash

SWE-2 Flash

Cognition
Inkling

Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab
Beam

Beam

Reflection

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