{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "carbon-x", "name": "Carbon-X", "vendor": "Hugging Face (HuggingFaceBio)", "vendorUrl": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Carbon-X is Hugging Face's open-weight 14.8B language model for DNA, a fine-tune of Qwen3-14B that reads raw DNA in a chat and answers in English about variant effects and regulatory regions, with a 40,960-token context, under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/carbon-x.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The Hub reports gated false for HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X and HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF (checked 2026-10-23). The Python tokenizer fetches Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base's tokenizer at a pinned revision on first load, which is also ungated.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0, and the base Qwen3-14B is Apache 2.0 too. Hugging Face sells no per-call access to it and no inference provider serves it. Running it costs the hardware, 29.6 GB for the BF16 safetensors and 9.6 GB for the publisher's smallest GGUF, Q4_K_M (checked 2026-10-23).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-23).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-23" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "dna", "genomics", "biology", "fine-tune", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "gguf", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-22", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1201, "categoryRank": 30, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 35, "reach": 90, "risk": 65, "upkeep": 77 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-23" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A DNA specialist cousin that another agent calls for variant-effect and sequence questions, with DNA kept on the machine. Hugging Face's Q4_K_M GGUF needs about 12 GB and Q8_0 about 19 GB, on llama.cpp b11742 or later. It isn't clinically validated, it isn't trained for tool calls or reasoning, and the card contradicts its own GGUF repository on llama.cpp support.", "bestFor": "Agents that need a second opinion on DNA variants and regulatory regions on a 16 to 24 GB machine, without sending sequences to a hosted model.", "strengths": [ "Hugging Face's own GGUFs at four precisions, the smallest about 12 GB with a fifth added", "Runs in released llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers", "Apache 2.0 on the model and its Qwen3-14B base, nothing gated", "A ready-made skill, an OpenAI-style tool example and an Inspect example for calling it from another agent", "Mid-training data listed by source with shares of 302B tokens" ], "weaknesses": [ "Not clinically validated and no wet-lab validation reported", "The Python tokenizer needs trust_remote_code, and llama.cpp before b11742 tokenizes DNA wrongly", "Not trained for tool calling, structured output or reasoning", "The card says llama.cpp is unsupported while the publisher's GGUF repository says it is", "No inference provider or hosted API, and no knowledge cut-off" ], "agentNotes": [ "Quickest start is `llama-server -hf HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF:Q8_0 -ngl 99 -c 40960 --jinja --chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": false}' --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0`, on llama.cpp b11742 or later", "With vLLM or Transformers pass trust_remote_code, and expect the tokenizer to fetch Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base at a pinned revision on first load", "Keep enable_thinking false and the card's sampling (temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95, top_k 20), the settings every reported result used", "Keep DNA in files and pass sequences by name, compute positions and base changes in code and send them as context, the card says the model miscounts long sequences", "Only A, C, G and T form 6-mers, so filter N and other IUPAC codes first or they become a single oov token", "Strip the dna tags from answers if you need bare sequence, llama.cpp keeps them in the text", "Cap max_tokens for next-base questions, long DNA generation is slow and degrades" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 35, "reach": 90, "risk": 65, "upkeep": 77 }, "provenanceScore": 53, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-10-23", "reach": "2026-10-23", "risk": "2026-10-23", "upkeep": "2026-10-23" }, "last": "2026-10-23", "oldest": "2026-10-23", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "# llama.cpp b11742 or later (older builds tokenize DNA wrongly):\nllama-server -hf HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF:Q8_0 -ngl 99 -c 40960 --jinja \\\n --chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": false}' \\\n --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0 --port 8080\n# or, with vLLM:\nvllm serve HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X --trust-remote-code", "http": "curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Is this sequence more likely coding or non-coding? ATGGCGCTGTGGATGCGCCTCCTG\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/carbon-x" }, "sameCompany": [ "hugging-face-inference-endpoints", "smollm3-3b" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Hugging Face with Zhongguancun Academy and TIGEM / University of Naples Federico II", "builtOn": "Qwen/Qwen3-14B (vocabulary extension, mid-training, supervised fine-tune and GRPO; base Apache 2.0, declared in the card's metadata)", "params": "14.8B", "context": 40960, "goodFor": "A DNA specialist another agent calls, for variant-effect questions, regulatory regions and next-base prediction on raw DNA kept on local hardware.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 9.64, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-q4_k_m.gguf, 9,636,318,080 bytes. Embedding and output tensors stay at Q8_0. The publisher's own runs put it lowest of the builds on FrontierVEP (67.8) and NextBase (38.6)" }, { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q6_K", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q6_k", "sizeGB": 12.56, "memoryGB": 16, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-q6_k.gguf, 12,555,946,880 bytes" }, { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q5_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q5_k_m", "sizeGB": 11.05, "memoryGB": 16, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-q5_k_m.gguf, 11,051,895,680 bytes" }, { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q8_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 15.76, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-q8_0.gguf, 15,755,742,080 bytes, the build the publisher recommends" }, { "name": "Carbon-X", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 29.64, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM", "Transformers" ], "note": "Needs trust_remote_code for the custom HybridDNATokenizer, and Transformers v5 or later. The card says it fits one 80 GB GPU" }, { "name": "Carbon-X-GGUF BF16", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 29.65, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "carbon-x-bf16.gguf, 29,651,012,480 bytes. llama.cpp b11742 or later" } ], "run": "llama-server -hf HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF:Q8_0 -ngl 99 -c 40960 --jinja --chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": false}' --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0 --port 8080", "runBuild": "Carbon-X-GGUF Q8_0", "checked": "2026-10-23", "minMemoryGB": 12 }, "family": { "lab": "Hugging Face (Carbon)", "family": "Carbon", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#huggingface-bio", "others": [ { "name": "Carbon-A-1.2B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-A-1.2B", "params": "1.2B" }, { "name": "Carbon-8B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-8B", "params": "8.3B" }, { "name": "Carbon-3B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-3B", "params": "3.5B" }, { "name": "Carbon-500M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-500M", "params": "0.5B" } ] }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Hugging Face (the HuggingFaceBio organisation, named Hugging Face Biology Research on the Hub)", "domain": "huggingface.co", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-23", "notes": [ "The HuggingFaceBio organisation isn't verified on the Hub. It has 27 members, Hugging Face staff among them, and the huggingface/carbon GitHub repository links its Carbon models.", "Nothing is hosted, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "huggingface.co/.well-known/security.txt names a security contact and expires in 2030.", "No changelog. The main repository's history shows one commit on 22 October 2026; the merged pull requests show earlier commits on 21 and 22 October, so the history was squashed. Registration of huggingface.co wasn't checked." ], "score": 53 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.json", "live": { "slug": "carbon-x", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://huggingface.co/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-07-01T08:42:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T15:25:11.273582159Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-23T15:25:11.273582159Z" } }, "answer": "Inkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Carbon-X's 61 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Carbon-X leads on reach.", "b": { "slug": "inkling-small", "name": "Inkling-Small", "vendor": "Thinking Machines Lab", "vendorUrl": "https://thinkingmachines.ai", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Inkling-Small is Thinking Machines Lab's open-weight mixture-of-experts model, 276B total and 12B active parameters, taking text, images and audio and returning text, with adjustable thinking effort, published in BF16 and NVFP4 under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inkling-small.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. Neither repository is gated (checked 2026-10-21). Thinking Machines' Model Acceptable Use Policy, linked from the card, says that downloading or using the weights binds you to it.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0 with Thinking Machines' Model Acceptable Use Policy on top. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 531.9 GB for the BF16 files and 170.8 GB for the NVFP4 build. Thinking Machines' Tinker serves it as a beta serverless inference API at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://thinkingmachines.ai/model-card/inkling-small/", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "moe", "multimodal", "audio", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "nvfp4", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-07-31", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1201, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 63, "interface": 85, "reach": 55, "risk": 70, "upkeep": 82 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A mixture-of-experts generalist with images and audio in, several tool calls a turn and per-request thinking effort. It needs about 205 GB for Thinking Machines' NVFP4 build on recent NVIDIA or AMD datacentre GPUs, and Tinker or DeepInfra host it. The main risks are a use policy that binds on download and can change, and no outside safety results.", "bestFor": "Teams with 256 GB or more of datacentre GPU memory who want an open multimodal agent model with audio input and adjustable thinking.", "strengths": [ "Thinking Machines answered 8 of the 9 questions in its discussions", "Safetensors only, with a checksum on every LFS file in the publisher's own organisation", "Thinking effort set per request from none to the maximum, several tool calls a turn and a 1M-token context", "Released support in Transformers, vLLM and SGLang, with inkling tool and reasoning parsers", "A training-content summary with sources, mix and a July 2026 collection cut-off", "Thinking Machines' own Tinker hosts it as beta serverless inference" ], "weaknesses": [ "The smallest build Thinking Machines publishes needs about 205 GB", "Apache 2.0 comes with an acceptable use policy that binds on download and can change at any time", "No release of ggml-org's llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio runs it", "Safety results are Thinking Machines' own, with no harness to rerun them and no prompt-injection guidance", "Structured output isn't documented, and the card gives no dated knowledge cut-off" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start the NVFP4 build with SGLang's recipe, `sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4 --tp 8 --enable-multimodal --reasoning-parser inkling --tool-call-parser inkling`, on Blackwell for W4A4", "Use the inkling tool and reasoning parsers in vLLM or SGLang, or Thinking Machines' tml-renderers package to render prompts and parse calls yourself", "Pass `reasoning_effort` as none, minimal, low, medium, high (the default) or max, or a number from 0 to 0.99. The repository's template has no xhigh preset and raises an error for it, though Thinking Machines' docs and SGLang's cookbook list xhigh", "Effort none conditions the model toward no reasoning but doesn't forbid it, and higher effort needs a larger max_tokens", "Tool call arguments must reach the template as an object, not a JSON string, or it raises an error", "Images should be 40 to 4096 px a side and audio 16 kHz WAV under two minutes, per the card", "Use guided decoding or validate JSON yourself, since structured output isn't documented", "Read the Model Acceptable Use Policy before deploying, it binds on download and bars some uses that are legal" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 63, "interface": 85, "reach": 55, "risk": 70, "upkeep": 82 }, "provenanceScore": 67, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "# per SGLang's cookbook, NVFP4 on 8 Blackwell GPUs:\nsglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4 --tp 8 \\\n --enable-multimodal --reasoning-parser inkling --tool-call-parser inkling", "http": "curl http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}],\n \"reasoning_effort\": \"low\"\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/inkling-small" }, "sameCompany": [ "inkling" ], "sameModel": [ "tinker" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Thinking Machines Lab", "params": "276B", "active": "12B", "context": 1048576, "goodFor": "Mixture-of-experts generalist for coding, agents and tool use with images and audio in, and thinking effort set per request.", "runtimes": [ "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "Inkling-Small-NVFP4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 170.8, "memoryGB": 256, "format": "safetensors", "note": "NVFP4 experts with FP8 and BF16 parts. Thinking Machines says W4A4 needs NVIDIA SM100 or newer, and W4A16 runs on H200" }, { "name": "Inkling-Small", "url": "https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 531.9, "memoryGB": 1024, "format": "safetensors" } ], "run": "sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4 --tp 8 --enable-multimodal --reasoning-parser inkling --tool-call-parser inkling", "runBuild": "Inkling-Small-NVFP4", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 256 }, "family": { "lab": "Thinking Machines Lab", "family": "Inkling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#thinking-machines", "others": [ { "name": "Inkling", "url": "https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling", "params": "952.38B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling" } ], "unrestrictedCopies": 3 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Thinking Machines Lab, Inc. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Inkling-Small vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "title": "Inkling-Small vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Inkling-Small vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-vs-inkling-small.json", "title": "Inkling vs Inkling-Small", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-vs-inkling-small" } ], "scores": [ { "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "pending": true, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 35, "carbon-x": 90, "edge": "carbon-x", "inkling-small": 55, "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "weight": 25 }, { "by": 5, "carbon-x": 65, "edge": "inkling-small", "inkling-small": 70, "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "weight": 20 }, { "by": 50, "carbon-x": 35, "edge": "inkling-small", "inkling-small": 85, "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "weight": 10 }, { "by": 5, "carbon-x": 77, "edge": "inkling-small", "inkling-small": 82, "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Inkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Carbon-X's 61 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Carbon-X leads on reach. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "carbon-x": "A DNA specialist cousin that another agent calls for variant-effect and sequence questions, with DNA kept on the machine. Hugging Face's Q4_K_M GGUF needs about 12 GB and Q8_0 about 19 GB, on llama.cpp b11742 or later. It isn't clinically validated, it isn't trained for tool calls or reasoning, and the card contradicts its own GGUF repository on llama.cpp support.", "inkling-small": "A mixture-of-experts generalist with images and audio in, several tool calls a turn and per-request thinking effort. It needs about 205 GB for Thinking Machines' NVFP4 build on recent NVIDIA or AMD datacentre GPUs, and Tinker or DeepInfra host it. The main risks are a use policy that binds on download and can change, and no outside safety results." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-inkling-small", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-inkling-small.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-inkling-small.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-inkling-small.min.md" }, "markdown": "Inkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Carbon-X's 61 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Carbon-X leads on reach. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Carbon-X: grade C, 61/100, rank #38 of 107 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/carbon-x.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/carbon-x.json\n- Inkling-Small: grade B, 66.5/100, rank #14 of 107 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inkling-small.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 3023 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Carbon-X (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that need a second opinion on DNA variants and regulatory regions on a 16 to 24 GB machine, without sending sequences to a hosted model.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 90 against 55\n\nWatch for: Not clinically validated and no wet-lab validation reported\n\n### Inkling-Small (B)\n\nGood for: Teams with 256 GB or more of datacentre GPU memory who want an open multimodal agent model with audio input and adjustable thinking.\n\nAhead on:\n- Risk, 70 against 65\n- Agent interface, 85 against 35\n- Documentation and upkeep, 82 against 77\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 3.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: The smallest build Thinking Machines publishes needs about 205 GB\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Carbon-X | Inkling-Small | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 90 | 55 | Carbon-X +35 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 65 | 70 | Inkling-Small +5 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 35 | 85 | Inkling-Small +50 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 77 | 82 | Inkling-Small +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61 · C** | **66.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Carbon-X | Inkling-Small |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Hugging Face (HuggingFaceBio) | Thinking Machines Lab |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-22 | 2026-07-31 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Carbon-X.** A DNA specialist cousin that another agent calls for variant-effect and sequence questions, with DNA kept on the machine. Hugging Face's Q4_K_M GGUF needs about 12 GB and Q8_0 about 19 GB, on llama.cpp b11742 or later. It isn't clinically validated, it isn't trained for tool calls or reasoning, and the card contradicts its own GGUF repository on llama.cpp support.\n\n**Inkling-Small.** A mixture-of-experts generalist with images and audio in, several tool calls a turn and per-request thinking effort. It needs about 205 GB for Thinking Machines' NVFP4 build on recent NVIDIA or AMD datacentre GPUs, and Tinker or DeepInfra host it. The main risks are a use policy that binds on download and can change, and no outside safety results.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Carbon-X\n\n1. Quickest start is `llama-server -hf HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X-GGUF:Q8_0 -ngl 99 -c 40960 --jinja --chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": false}' --temp 0.6 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0`, on llama.cpp b11742 or later\n2. With vLLM or Transformers pass trust_remote_code, and expect the tokenizer to fetch Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Base at a pinned revision on first load\n3. Keep enable_thinking false and the card's sampling (temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95, top_k 20), the settings every reported result used\n4. Keep DNA in files and pass sequences by name, compute positions and base changes in code and send them as context, the card says the model miscounts long sequences\n5. Only A, C, G and T form 6-mers, so filter N and other IUPAC codes first or they become a single oov token\n6. Strip the dna tags from answers if you need bare sequence, llama.cpp keeps them in the text\n7. Cap max_tokens for next-base questions, long DNA generation is slow and degrades\n\n### Inkling-Small\n\n1. Start the NVFP4 build with SGLang's recipe, `sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4 --tp 8 --enable-multimodal --reasoning-parser inkling --tool-call-parser inkling`, on Blackwell for W4A4\n2. Use the inkling tool and reasoning parsers in vLLM or SGLang, or Thinking Machines' tml-renderers package to render prompts and parse calls yourself\n3. Pass `reasoning_effort` as none, minimal, low, medium, high (the default) or max, or a number from 0 to 0.99. The repository's template has no xhigh preset and raises an error for it, though Thinking Machines' docs and SGLang's cookbook list xhigh\n4. Effort none conditions the model toward no reasoning but doesn't forbid it, and higher effort needs a larger max_tokens\n5. Tool call arguments must reach the template as an object, not a JSON string, or it raises an error\n6. Images should be 40 to 4096 px a side and audio 16 kHz WAV under two minutes, per the card\n7. Use guided decoding or validate JSON yourself, since structured output isn't documented\n8. Read the Model Acceptable Use Policy before deploying, it binds on download and bars some uses that are legal\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Carbon-X or Inkling-Small?\n\nInkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Carbon-X's 61 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Carbon-X leads on reach.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-inkling-small.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/carbon-x-vs-inkling-small.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"carbon-x\", \"b\": \"inkling-small\"}`. 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