Model comparison
Inkling Small vs Claude 4 Sonnet
Capability radar, value bars, and side-by-side posture.
Inkling Small
Not scored
value score
Claude 4 Sonnet
91
value score
Inkling Small ctx
—
Claude 4 Sonnet ctx
200K
Capability radar
Value · context · multimodal · openness · speed posture
Value head-to-head
- Claude 4 Sonnet91
Attribute tape
| Field | Inkling Small | Claude 4 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Thinking Machines Lab | Anthropic |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Modalities | Text, Code, Image | |
| Openness | — | Proprietary Model |
| Speed | — | Fast |
| Price | — | $3/1M in · $15/1M out |
| Value score | — | 91 |
| Summary | Inkling Small is a preview open-weights multimodal MoE model from Thinking Machines Lab with 276B total parameters and 12B active, accepting text, image, and audio inputs. It targets developers building chatbots, coding assistants, agentic pipelines, and RAG systems at lower latency and cost than its larger sibling Inkling. | Balanced Claude model for coding and agents. |