Model comparison
Inkling Small vs o3
Capability radar, value bars, and side-by-side posture.
Inkling Small
Not scored
value score
o3
93
value score
Inkling Small ctx
—
o3 ctx
200K
Capability radar
Value · context · multimodal · openness · speed posture
Value head-to-head
- o393
Attribute tape
| Field | Inkling Small | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Thinking Machines Lab | OpenAI |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Modalities | Text, Code | |
| Openness | — | Proprietary Model |
| Speed | — | — |
| Price | — | $10/1M in · $40/1M out |
| Value score | — | 93 |
| 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. | OpenAI reasoning model focused on hard problems. |