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Inkling Small
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by Thinkingmachines
OPEN WEIGHTSLOCALAPILONG CONTEXTPAIDFREE TO TRY
RANKED #172 OF 231 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #270 OF 6,549 · VIBE SCORE 5.6 · 26 VOICES
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of...
HAPPY10.0
6 mentions
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0 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 40 voices
AGING WELL
The crowd is warmer now than it was at the start.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly happy with Inkling Small. Biggest praise: help with code.
24 POSTS · 2 COMMENTS · REDDIT · GITHUB · X · BLOG
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (6 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (3 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- People find it expensive (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
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- SpeedPEOPLE LOVE THIS
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- PriceMIXED FEELINGS
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- REDDIT · 2026-07-30 · 121 UPVOTESInkling-Small-276B-12B, effort "max" VS Qwen3.6-27B
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- REDDIT · 2026-08-05 · 67 UPVOTESInkling-Small 276B-A12B at ~2.9 tok/s on <10gb memory
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- REDDIT · 2026-07-31 · 51 UPVOTESWe've gotten some great medium sized models lately (DSV4 Flash 0731, Inkling Small, Laguna S 2.1, Step 3.7 Flash) but does anybody else…
We've gotten some great medium sized models lately (DSV4 Flash 0731, Inkling Small, Laguna S 2.1, Step 3.7 Flash) but does anybody else want to see some new 70-80b contenders?
- REDDIT · 2026-07-30 · 39 UPVOTESThinking Machine's smaller "Inkling Small" Artificial Analysis results
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