Inkling-Small
Inkling-Small is available now for agents, vision, and json / tool use with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
- Family
- Inkling
- Released
- 2026-07-30
- Parameters
- 276B (12B activated)
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Multi-stage
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About
Thinking Machines Inkling-Small (HF thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small) is the smaller open-weight sibling of Inkling, announced 30 July 2026. It is a general-purpose multimodal model that takes text, image (40-4096px) and 16 kHz WAV audio input and produces text. Architecture: 42-layer decoder-only sparse MoE with 276B total and 12B active parameters (6 of 256 experts plus 2 shared) and hybrid local/global attention, shipped in BF16 and NVFP4. Apache 2.0. Hosted by DeepInfra, Together and Baseten per HF provider mapping.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Agents
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Benchmark scores(3)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google-Proof Q&A | 88.5 | diamondObserved 2026-08-14 | Configuration: Inkling-Small (Extra High) Harness: Epoch AI Inspect harness (GPQA Diamond, 198 Q) Evaluator: Epoch AI Confidence: confirmed Notes: Epoch AI-run; benchmark_data.zip gpqa_diamond.csv row 'inkling-small_xhigh' 0.88510 (run 2026-08-14). CC BY 4.0, credit Epoch AI. | Source |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 17.1 | FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (private)Observed 2026-08-14 | Configuration: Inkling-Small (Extra High) Harness: Epoch AI FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 private set Evaluator: Epoch AI Confidence: confirmed Notes: Epoch AI-run; frontiermath_tier_4_v2.csv row 'inkling-small_xhigh' 0.17073 (run 2026-08-14). CC BY 4.0. | Source |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 40.1 | ARC-AGI-2 semi-privateObserved 2026-10-01 | Configuration: Inkling-Small (XHigh) Harness: ARC Prize semi-private evaluation Evaluator: ARC Prize Foundation Confidence: confirmed Notes: ARC Prize official data https://arcprize.org/media/data/leaderboard/v2.json (generatedAt 2026-10-01) modelDisplayName 'Inkling Small (XHigh)' score 0.40139; matches Epoch AI mirror. Highest published effort. | Source |
Migration checks
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API versions
thinkingmachines/Inkling-SmallInkling SmallRankings & picks(1)
Building collaborative AI aligned with human values.
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.