# Cola2 vs Inkling 2 Small (slim)

> Inkling 2 Small scores 58.8 (C) to Cola2's 33.9 (F) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Inkling 2 Small scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Cola2's 33.9 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Cola2: F 33.9, rank #161 of 161 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cola2.min.md
- Inkling 2 Small: C 58.8, rank #102 of 161 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-2-small.min.md
- Cola2, good for Researchers working on latent or diffusion language models who want a checkpoint to study
- Inkling 2 Small, good for Teams with 512 GB or more of datacentre GPU memory who want Thinking Machines' newest open multimodal agent model and can run a runtime's pre-release image. Ahead on Reach, 40 against 25; Risk, 65 against 40; Agent interface, 85 against 20; Documentation and upkeep, 67 against 58.

| Category | Cola2 | Inkling 2 Small |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 25 | 40 |
| Risk (20%) | 40 | 65 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 20 | 85 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 58 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cola2 | Inkling 2 Small |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ByteDance (Seed) | Thinking Machines Lab |
| Licence | None stated for the weights (the code is Apache 2.0) | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-11-06 | 2026-11-12 |

Why the edge:
- Agent interface, Inkling 2 Small +65: Cola2 20 (Chat template 20, A chat template in tokenizer_config.json (4,116 characters), which came with the Qwen3 tokenizer.); Inkling 2 Small 85 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.)
- Risk, Inkling 2 Small +25: Cola2 40 (File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25).); Inkling 2 Small 65 (File safety 25, safetensors only and no repository code to run.)
- Reach, Inkling 2 Small +15: Cola2 25 (Memory 15, the only build is the F32 safetensors set, 35.07 GB, and 35.07 GB × 1.2 = 42.1 GB, within 64 GB.); Inkling 2 Small 40 (Memory 0 of 30, the smallest build is Thinking Machines' NVFP4 checkpoint at 393.5 GB, about 472 GB with a fifth added, above the 256 GB line.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Inkling 2 Small +9: Cola2 58 (Model card 8, Intended use and limitations (the out-of-scope list, and the unconverged latent model) and the architecture are on the card and the GitHub model c…); Inkling 2 Small 67 (Model card 17 of 20, everything but a dated knowledge cut-off.)