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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...
Running this yourself: can likely run on your own machine.
This model is still tracked for research and discovery, but it is excluded from default public rankings until it returns to active status.
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Quality Score
1210
Arena ELO
12B
Parameters
524K
Context
Use this section to answer one simple question first: how much outside evidence do we have that this model performs well? Structured benchmark scores appear first, then official provider evidence, then live arena signal.
This model has normalized benchmark rows, so scores here are directly comparable across benchmark sources.
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Jul 2026
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These are recent benchmark or leaderboard claims from official provider sources. They are useful for freshness and context, but they are not treated the same as normalized independent benchmark rows.
Inkling Small Benchmark Update
Quality: 41.2/100 | Price: $0.525/M tokens | Output: 61.345 tok/s | HumanEval: 0.487%
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Quality: 41.2/100 | Price: $0.525/M tokens | Output: 64.071 tok/s | HumanEval: 0.487%
View sourceInkling Small Benchmark Update
Quality: 41.2/100 | Price: $0.525/M tokens | Output: 64.071 tok/s | HumanEval: 0.487%
View sourceInkling Small Benchmark Update
Quality: 41.2/100 | Price: $0.525/M tokens | Output: 72.07 tok/s | HumanEval: 0.487%
View sourceInkling Small Benchmark Update
Quality: 41.2/100 | Price: $0.525/M tokens | Output: 95.694 tok/s | HumanEval: 0.487%
View sourceInkling Small Benchmark Update
Quality: 41.2/100 | Price: $0.525/M tokens | Output: 110.151 tok/s | HumanEval: 0.487%
View source1210
ELO Score
1194 - 1226
95% Confidence
+/-16 points
1.6K
Battles
Aug 19, 2026
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