GLM-5.3-Flash vs Inkling 2 Small

GLM-5.3-Flash 60

Memory earns nothing, since Z.ai's smallest build is the 328.4 GB FP8 one, about 394 GB with the fifth added, and neither Ollama nor LM Studio has a local build (both list it as cloud only). Four runtimes run it in a released version, llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers, for 20, while Ollama and LM Studio don't. Z.ai publishes one quantised build, FP8, for 10. The MIT licence with nothing added gives the full 15, the files download with no account or gate for 10, and Z.ai's own API plus six providers on Hugging Face serve it, for 5.

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. Runtimes 0, no released version of the six runs it; vLLM and SGLang serve it from their own images and Transformers has it on its main branch only. Builds 15, two precisions from the publisher (NVFP4 and MXFP8). Terms 10, Apache 2.0 with a binding acceptable use policy on top, read as a custom licence. Download 10, no gate. Hosted 5, Thinking Machines' own Tinker serves it as beta serverless inference, and Together is live on Hugging Face. 0 + 0 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 40.

GLM-5.3-Flash 70

A Jinja chat template sits in both repositories, for 20. The tool-calling format is 10, because it is defined only by the template and the glm47 parser is named by vLLM and SGLang rather than by Z.ai. The template takes several calls in one turn, for 20. Structured output is 0, with nothing on the card and only the hosted API documented for JSON. Reasoning control is 10, a per-request budget through reasoning_effort, with the reasoning coming back in a think block, though thinking can't be turned off. Context is 10, 1,048,576 tokens native with no rotary scaling.

Inkling 2 Small 85

Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository. Tool-calling format 25, Thinking Machines' tml-renderers guide shows how tools are declared and how calls come back for this model, and its package ships the parser. Trained tool calling 20, several calls in one turn. Structured output 0, not documented. Reasoning control 10, thinking effort is set per request from none to xhigh, and the reasoning comes back in reasoning_content. Context 10, up to 1M tokens. 20 + 25 + 20 + 0 + 10 + 10 = 85.

GLM-5.3-Flash 55

File safety is full, with safetensors only, no Python and no remote code needed in Transformers 5.16.1 or later. Provenance is full, files in the zai-org organisation Z.ai links from GitHub with a SHA-256 for every shard. Safety evaluation and agent guidance are 0, as nothing is published on either. Licence risk is the full 15, since MIT adds no policy, threshold or changeable terms. The security programme is 0, with no security.txt on z.ai or docs.z.ai, no SECURITY.md on GitHub and no advisories found.

Inkling 2 Small 65

File safety 25, safetensors only and no repository code to run. Provenance 15, the files are in the organisation Thinking Machines links to, with a SHA-256 on every LFS file. Safety evaluation 10, Thinking Machines' own StrongREJECT, FORTRESS, HoneyBench and DistressBench results and described outside red-teaming, but nothing an outside party published or a harness to rerun. Agent guidance 5, the card names safeguards to add but doesn't say what its refusals cover, with nothing on prompt injection. Licence risk 5, 10 off for a use policy that reaches beyond the law and that can change at any time. Security programme 5, a security.txt and a disclosure policy, with public advisories unchecked and scored as absent. 25 + 15 + 10 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 65.

GLM-5.3-Flash 58

The card covers architecture, parameters and languages and misses four of the seven items, for 8. Training data is 5, a 30T-token corpus described with no sources or cut-off. The last change, a chat template speed-up on 15 October in both repositories, is within 30 days on 2 November, for 20; Z.ai's GLM-5 GitHub repository has changed only its docs since. Responsiveness is 10, as zai-org answered 14 of the 38 recent discussions others opened (26 August to 30 October), the last on 28 September, which is some but not most. Version policy is 5 for a first release, and file health is the full 10, with files and card agreeing and no broken-file report waiting as far as the research record shows.

Inkling 2 Small 67

Model card 17 of 20, everything but a dated knowledge cut-off. Training data 15, an EU training-content summary with sources, mix, an October 2026 collection cut-off and filtering. Last change 20, the files were uploaded on 12 November 2026. Responsiveness 0, the repository has no questions yet, which reads as none answered. Version policy 5, a first release. File health 10, the files agree and no broken-file report waits. 17 + 15 + 20 + 0 + 5 + 10 = 67.