Inkling Small

Smaller Tinker sibling of Inkling. Official Apache-2.0 repo. AA 41. vals hero 31.86% ±1.10. Full Inkling on the same board is 42.06% ±1.16. OpenRouter $0.45 / $1.20; AA prints $0.30 / $1.20. No official DeepSWE row. Not hosted.

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Identity

524,288Context in
262,144Context out
2026-07-30 (OpenRouter created 1785443117)Released
OpenWeights
Canonical name
Inkling Small
Aliases
inkling-small, thinkingmachines/inkling-small
Continuum hosted id
Not listed as a Continuum hosted id
OpenRouter slug
thinkingmachines/inkling-small
Hugging Face
thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small
Modalities
text
Open weights Not on Continuum host list Independent lab

Open Apache-2.0 at thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small. Catalog $0.45 / $1.20, cache read $0.10 /M, 524,288 / 262,144, created unix 1785443117 (30 Jul 2026).

Full Inkling is the other card (AA 42, vals 34.10% on that page: do not copy those tiles here).

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Should I use this for coding agents

Use Inkling Small when you want this cheaper official checkpoint. AA 41; vals hero 31.86% ±1.10. We do not invent a DeepSWE percent. Hub API 19 Aug 2026: 365 likes, 108,016 downloads.

DeepSWE

No official DeepSWE mini-swe-agent row for this identity on the public board we fetched.

omitted, not invented as of 2026-08-13 source
Artificial Analysispublished integer
41
bench
Artificial Analysis
version
Intelligence Index
harness
published integer
metric
Intelligence Index
value
41
independent as of 2026-08-19 source
Vals Indexvals.ai card
31.86%
bench
Vals Index
version
hero index
harness
vals.ai card
metric
Vals Index
value
31.86%
independent as of 2026-08-19 source

vals.ai Accuracy Rankings hero, 19 Aug 2026: 31.86% ±1.10. Full Inkling on the same board is 42.06% ±1.16. Do not copy it here. The Inkling card’s own vals hero is 34.10% ±1.13 on a different vals URL.

Ranked view: Best coding models: the independent leaderboard puts this row and every other card that carries an independent coding score on one board, with the confidence intervals left visible.

Named benches, printed only

Copied from AA or vals HTML we opened. 0.0% placeholder bars are omitted. Do not average these into the hero tiles, and do not invent CI, $/task, or steps for Artificial Analysis.

BenchPrintedNoteSourceURLAs of
AA list pair $0.30 / $1.20 per 1M Printed AA pair. OpenRouter catalog is $0.45 / $1.20. Artificial Analysis Inkling Small source 2026-08-19
AA throughput 67 tok/s Printed Speed row. Artificial Analysis Inkling Small source 2026-08-19
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When not to use it

Trust this before you buy

  • Need full Inkling (the other card). Need DeepSWE. That board has no Inkling Small row.
  • AA $0.30 / $1.20 vs OR $0.45 / $1.20: two published tables. Do not copy full Inkling’s vals 34.10% or 42.06% here.

Plus is $25/mo with $25 weekly hosted usage. The Mac app stays free with your own keys. Get Plus is not Download for Mac.

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Artifact and Hugging Face downloads

Artifact

SPDX / license
Apache-2.0
Total params
HF safetensors.total: 265,956,439,090 stored tensors
Repo size
HF API usedStorage 531,944,513,947 bytes
HF created
2026-07-27T22:33:44Z
Official HF repo
thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small
HF downloads
108,016
HF likes
365

Community quants: Community quants are community.

Official weights

This is the model repo, not Download for Mac. Downloads and likes from the Hugging Face API on 2026-08-19.

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Continuum serving

Not listed as a Continuum hosted id. OpenRouter thinkingmachines/inkling-small.

Continuum hosted id not on the host list

We list first-party and OpenRouter, plus Continuum only when the live public allowlist named the id. This is not a 15-host routing table.

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Economics

OpenRouter catalog 19 Aug 2026: $0.45 / $1.20, cache read $0.10 /M. AA prints $0.30 / $1.20, 67 tok/s, $192.52 Index eval. Cite both. No DeepSWE $/task.

Price this model Opens the pricing calculator preloaded with Inkling Small.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 41, fetched 19 Aug 2026. Same page: 67 tok/s; $192.52 Index eval. AA $0.30 / $1.20 vs OR $0.45 / $1.20.

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Provenance

ClaimSourceAs of
OR catalog $0.45 / $1.20, cache $0.10, 524,288 / 262,144, created 1785443117OpenRouter catalog2026-08-19
AA Index 41; $0.30 / $1.20; 67 tok/s; $192.52 Index evalArtificial Analysis Inkling Small2026-08-19
vals Accuracy 31.86% ±1.10vals.ai Accuracy Rankings 2026-08-192026-08-19
HF likes 365; downloads 108,016; usedStorage 531,944,513,947; safetensors.total 265,956,439,090; Apache-2.0; created 2026-07-27T22:33:44ZHugging Face API2026-08-19
OpenRouter id thinkingmachines/inkling-small, context 524,288OpenRouter /api/v1/models2026-08-19
HF downloads 108,016Hugging Face API thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small2026-08-19
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Compare, FAQ, and Get Plus

No other card in this cluster shares a published DeepSWE official row we can put next to this one. We will not compare on vendor-blog numbers.

Continue through Thinking Machines's model family with Inkling.

FAQ

Can I use full Inkling’s 42% here?

No. vals Accuracy for Inkling Small is 31.86% ±1.10. 42.06% ±1.16 is a full-Inkling row on the same 19 Aug Accuracy board. The Inkling card chips 34.10% ±1.13 from its own vals model page.

Why does the lab blog disagree with DeepSWE or Scale?

Lab posts pick a harness, an effort, a split, and sometimes a private eval set. DeepSWE publishes the official mini-swe-agent row with cost, tokens, and steps. Scale SWE-bench Pro only counts when the public shared-harness board has a row we can fetch. A higher lab number is usually a different test, not a better one.

OpenAI-compatible call

No Continuum hosted id is verified for this model, so this page does not invent a curl target. Use the first-party API or the OpenRouter slug thinkingmachines/inkling-small.

Plus is $25/mo with $25 weekly hosted usage. The Mac app stays free with your own keys. Get Plus is not Download for Mac.