{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "gemma-4-12b-it", "name": "Gemma 4 12B IT", "vendor": "Google DeepMind", "vendorUrl": "https://gemma.ai", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Gemma 4 12B IT is Google DeepMind's open-weight instruction-tuned dense model, 11.95B parameters in an encoder-free design, taking text, images, video frames and audio with a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-12b-it", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/gemma-4-12B-it" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-w4a16-ct" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "gemma4:12b" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository and Google's QAT repositories are not gated (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. No hosted version, since the Gemini API serves only the 26B A4B and 31B sizes and Hugging Face lists no inference provider for it. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 26.7 GB at BF16, 13.4 GB at SFP8 and 6.7 GB at Q4_0 to load the weights per Google (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://gemma.ai/models/gemma-4/", "llmsTxt": "https://gemma.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "multimodal", "audio", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "gguf", "qat", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-07-20", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 71.3, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "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": 1197, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 50, "interface": 85, "reach": 95, "risk": 70, "upkeep": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A mid-size cousin for agent work with tools, optional thinking and image and audio input, under Apache 2.0. Google's 4-bit build needs under 9 GB with working space, so it runs on a 12 GB GPU or any recent Mac in all the common runtimes. The main risks are no published safety results and no documented JSON output.", "bestFor": "Agents on a 12 GB or larger GPU or Mac that want a permissively licensed tool-calling model with images, audio and long context", "strengths": [ "Plain Apache 2.0, no account or gate, safetensors and GGUF only with a checksum on every file", "Google's own 4-bit QAT GGUF needs about 8.6 GB with working space", "Released support in vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio and Transformers", "Tool declaration and call format documented by Google, with parallel calls and a shipped response parser", "262,144 tokens of native context and thinking that turns on or off per request", "Takes audio as well as images and video frames" ], "weaknesses": [ "No safety evaluation figures published", "No documented way to ask for JSON or schema output", "No hosted version, since the Gemini API serves only the two largest sizes", "Training data described only by type and cut-off", "Files unchanged since 20 July 2026, and a startup crash report waits without a reply", "A newer, separate architecture (gemma4_unified) that needs Transformers 5.10.0 or later" ], "agentNotes": [ "On the reference machine run `llama-server -hf google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf --hf-file gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf --jinja -c 131072`, and add `--mmproj` with mmproj-gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf for images and audio", "With Ollama run `ollama run gemma4:12b` and raise num_ctx or OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH, since the default context is small and agents want at least 64K", "In vLLM or SGLang pass `--tool-call-parser gemma4 --reasoning-parser gemma4` (vLLM also `--enable-auto-tool-choice`), or tool calls come back as text; Google's w4a16 build is the 4-bit route there", "Thinking is off by default; pass enable_thinking=True or start the system prompt with \u003c|think|\u003e, and drop earlier turns' thinking from history except on tool-call turns", "Put images before the text and audio after it, keep audio to 30 seconds and video to 60 frames, and validate tool names and arguments before running them", "Transformers needs 5.10.0 or later for gemma4_unified, and mlx-lm has no gemma4_unified code, so on a Mac use mlx-vlm, LM Studio or Ollama" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 71.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 50, "interface": 85, "reach": 95, "risk": 70, "upkeep": 75 }, "provenanceScore": 68, "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": "ollama run gemma4:12b\n# or, with llama.cpp and Google's QAT build:\nllama-server -hf google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf --hf-file gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf --jinja -c 131072", "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"gemma4:12b\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}], \"options\": {\"num_ctx\": 65536}}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/gemma-4-12b-it" }, "sameCompany": [ "embeddinggemma-300m", "diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it", "gemma-4-26b-a4b-it", "gemma-4-31b-it", "gemma-4-e2b-it", "gemma-4-e4b-it" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Google DeepMind", "builtOn": "google/gemma-4-12B", "params": "11.95B", "context": 262144, "goodFor": "Mid-size dense assistant and agent model for a laptop GPU, with tool calling and optional thinking, taking text, images, video frames and audio without separate encoders, and a 256K context.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "LM Studio", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf/blob/main/gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_0", "sizeGB": 7.15, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)", "LM Studio" ], "note": "Quantisation-aware trained by Google. Size is the repository's two files summed, the 6.98 GB model and the 0.18 GB projector (mmproj-gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf) for image and audio input" }, { "name": "ollama gemma4:12b", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/gemma4:12b", "who": "ollama", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 8, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "Q4_K_M weights (7.4 GB) with a BF16 projector (175 MB) and a Q8_0 draft model (465 MB) (digest 6114515d63c1), the llama.cpp variant. gemma4:12b-it-qat (7.2 GB) is Ollama's copy of Google's Q4_0 QAT build" }, { "name": "lmstudio google/gemma-4-12b", "url": "https://lmstudio.ai/models/google/gemma-4-12b", "who": "lmstudio", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 7.4, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "LM Studio" ], "note": "LM Studio's catalogue build, from lmstudio-community/gemma-4-12B-it-GGUF, with MLX builds at 4 to 8 bits beside it. Size as the catalogue shows it, and Q4_K_M is inferred from that repository's files rather than stated by LM Studio" }, { "name": "gemma-4-12B-it-qat-w4a16-ct", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-w4a16-ct", "who": "publisher", "precision": "w4a16", "sizeGB": 10.3, "memoryGB": 16, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Quantisation-aware trained, 4-bit weights with 16-bit activations in compressed-tensors format, which Google routes to vLLM and SGLang" }, { "name": "gemma-4-12B-it", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 23.95, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM (ROCm)", "SGLang (ROCm)" ] } ], "run": "llama-server -hf google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf --hf-file gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf --jinja -c 131072", "runBuild": "gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 12 }, "family": { "lab": "Google (Gemma)", "family": "Gemma 4", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#google", "others": [ { "name": "gemma-4-26B-A4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-26B-A4B", "params": "25.2B total, 3.8B active" }, { "name": "gemma-4-26B-A4B-it", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it", "params": "25.2B total, 3.8B active", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it" }, { "name": "gemma-4-31B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-31B", "params": "30.7B" }, { "name": "gemma-4-31B-it", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-31B-it", "params": "30.7B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-31b-it" }, { "name": "gemma-4-E2B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B", "params": "2.3B effective (5.1B with embeddings)" }, { "name": "gemma-4-E2B-it", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B-it", "params": "2.3B effective (5.1B with embeddings)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-e2b-it" }, { "name": "gemma-4-E4B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E4B", "params": "4.5B effective (8B with embeddings)" }, { "name": "gemma-4-E4B-it", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E4B-it", "params": "4.5B effective (8B with embeddings)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-e4b-it" }, { "name": "gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-assistant", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-assistant", "params": "420M (file metadata on Hugging Face; drafter)" }, { "name": "gemma-4-31B-it-assistant", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-31B-it-assistant", "params": "470M (file metadata on Hugging Face; drafter)" }, { "name": "gemma-4-E2B-it-assistant", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E2B-it-assistant", "params": "78M (file metadata on Hugging Face; drafter)" }, { "name": "gemma-4-E4B-it-assistant", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-E4B-it-assistant", "params": "79M (file metadata on Hugging Face; drafter)" }, { "name": "gemma-4-12B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B", "params": "11.95B" }, { "name": "gemma-4-12B-it-assistant", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it-assistant", "params": "423M (file metadata on Hugging Face; drafter)" }, { "name": "diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it", "params": "25.2B total, 3.8B active", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it" }, { "name": "embeddinggemma-2", "url": "https://huggingface.co/google/embeddinggemma-2", "params": "740M" } ], "olderCount": 171, "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC (RDAP registrant of gemma.ai as recorded for the first batch's Gemma 4 listings; the card names Google DeepMind as author)", "domain": "gemma.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://gemma.ai/models/releases/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The registrant and registration date are carried from the gemma-4-26b-a4b-it and gemma-4-31b-it facts read earlier on 21 October 2026, since rdap.org rate-limited our request this time and wasn't retried.", "Nothing is hosted under this listing, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "gemma.ai keeps a dated releases page for the Gemma family (this size on 3 June 2026). The Hugging Face commit history says what each change fixed.", "gemma.ai/.well-known/security.txt answers 404. Google's company-wide security.txt at google.com points to its vulnerability reward programme." ], "score": 68 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.json" }, "answer": "Gemma 4 12B IT scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Inkling-Small's 66.5 (B), and leads in 1 of 5 scored categories. Inkling-Small leads on capability and documentation and upkeep.", "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": 1197, "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. 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"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": [ { "by": 13, "edge": "inkling-small", "gemma-4-12b-it": 50, "inkling-small": 63, "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "weight": 35 }, { "by": 40, "edge": "gemma-4-12b-it", "gemma-4-12b-it": 95, "inkling-small": 55, "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "weight": 25 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "gemma-4-12b-it": 70, "inkling-small": 70, "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "weight": 20 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "gemma-4-12b-it": 85, "inkling-small": 85, "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "weight": 10 }, { "by": 7, "edge": "inkling-small", "gemma-4-12b-it": 75, "inkling-small": 82, "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Gemma 4 12B IT scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Inkling-Small's 66.5 (B), and leads in 1 of 5 scored categories. Inkling-Small leads on capability and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "gemma-4-12b-it": "A mid-size cousin for agent work with tools, optional thinking and image and audio input, under Apache 2.0. Google's 4-bit build needs under 9 GB with working space, so it runs on a 12 GB GPU or any recent Mac in all the common runtimes. The main risks are no published safety results and no documented JSON output.", "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/gemma-4-12b-it-vs-inkling-small", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemma-4-12b-it-vs-inkling-small.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemma-4-12b-it-vs-inkling-small.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemma-4-12b-it-vs-inkling-small.min.md" }, "markdown": "Gemma 4 12B IT scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Inkling-Small's 66.5 (B), and leads in 1 of 5 scored categories. Inkling-Small leads on capability and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Gemma 4 12B IT: grade BB, 71.3/100, rank #5 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gemma-4-12b-it.json\n- Inkling-Small: grade B, 66.5/100, rank #14 of 100 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 2870 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Gemma 4 12B IT (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents on a 12 GB or larger GPU or Mac that want a permissively licensed tool-calling model with images, audio and long context\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 95 against 55\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: No safety evaluation figures published\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- Capability, 63 against 50\n- Documentation and upkeep, 82 against 75\n\nWatch for: The smallest build Thinking Machines publishes needs about 205 GB\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Gemma 4 12B IT | Inkling-Small | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 50 | 63 | Inkling-Small +13 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 95 | 55 | Gemma 4 12B IT +40 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 70 | 70 | even |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 85 | 85 | even |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 75 | 82 | Inkling-Small +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **71.3 · BB** | **66.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Gemma 4 12B IT | Inkling-Small |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Google DeepMind | 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 | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-07-20 | 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 | 3.8/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Gemma 4 12B IT.** A mid-size cousin for agent work with tools, optional thinking and image and audio input, under Apache 2.0. Google's 4-bit build needs under 9 GB with working space, so it runs on a 12 GB GPU or any recent Mac in all the common runtimes. The main risks are no published safety results and no documented JSON output.\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### Gemma 4 12B IT\n\n1. On the reference machine run `llama-server -hf google/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-q4_0-gguf --hf-file gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf --jinja -c 131072`, and add `--mmproj` with mmproj-gemma-4-12b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf for images and audio\n2. With Ollama run `ollama run gemma4:12b` and raise num_ctx or OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH, since the default context is small and agents want at least 64K\n3. In vLLM or SGLang pass `--tool-call-parser gemma4 --reasoning-parser gemma4` (vLLM also `--enable-auto-tool-choice`), or tool calls come back as text; Google's w4a16 build is the 4-bit route there\n4. Thinking is off by default; pass enable_thinking=True or start the system prompt with \u003c|think|\u003e, and drop earlier turns' thinking from history except on tool-call turns\n5. Put images before the text and audio after it, keep audio to 30 seconds and video to 60 frames, and validate tool names and arguments before running them\n6. Transformers needs 5.10.0 or later for gemma4_unified, and mlx-lm has no gemma4_unified code, so on a Mac use mlx-vlm, LM Studio or Ollama\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, Gemma 4 12B IT or Inkling-Small?\n\nGemma 4 12B IT scores 71.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Inkling-Small's 66.5 (B), and leads in 1 of 5 scored categories. Inkling-Small leads on capability and documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemma-4-12b-it-vs-inkling-small.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemma-4-12b-it-vs-inkling-small.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"gemma-4-12b-it\", \"b\": \"inkling-small\"}`. 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