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          "Fits a 24 GB machine at OpenAI's own MXFP4 precision, the one every evaluation used",
          "Apache 2.0 with no gate, no account and a usage policy that only asks users to follow the law",
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          "No reply from OpenAI to any discussion since August 2025, and template reports wait unanswered",
          "One tool call per message",
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          "Start it with `ollama run gpt-oss:20b` (the build that fits the reference machine), or `vllm serve openai/gpt-oss-20b` with a current vLLM release rather than the card's pinned vllm==0.10.1+gptoss wheel",
          "Use the harmony format through the chat template or openai-harmony; OpenAI says the model doesn't work correctly without it",
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          "Set effort with `Reasoning: high` (or low, medium) in the system message, or `reasoning_effort` in the template; medium is the default",
          "Ask for JSON by putting a JSON Schema under `# Response Formats` in the developer message",
          "Drop earlier reasoning after a final answer but pass it back after tool calls, and don't show the analysis channel to users",
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      "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.",
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      "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).",
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          "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",
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          "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",
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          "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",
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          "Images should be 40 to 4096 px a side and audio 16 kHz WAV under two minutes, per the card",
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        "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"
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        "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)",
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      {
        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-vs-inkling-small.json",
        "title": "Inkling vs Inkling-Small",
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        "gpt-oss-20b": 49,
        "inkling-small": 63,
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        "name": "Capability",
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        "gpt-oss-20b": 90,
        "inkling-small": 55,
        "key": "reach",
        "name": "Reach",
        "weight": 25
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        "gpt-oss-20b": 85,
        "inkling-small": 70,
        "key": "risk",
        "name": "Risk",
        "weight": 20
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        "edge": "gpt-oss-20b",
        "gpt-oss-20b": 90,
        "inkling-small": 85,
        "key": "interface",
        "name": "Agent interface",
        "weight": 10
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      {
        "by": 40,
        "edge": "inkling-small",
        "gpt-oss-20b": 42,
        "inkling-small": 82,
        "key": "upkeep",
        "name": "Documentation and upkeep",
        "weight": 10
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      "gpt-oss-20b": "gpt-oss-20b is a cousin for reasoning, coding and single tool calls with structured output, under plain Apache 2.0. It needs about 17 GB with a working context, and five inference providers serve it. The main risks are that it trails o4-mini at keeping system instructions above user ones, and OpenAI hasn't answered a report since August 2025.",
      "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."
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  "markdown": "gpt-oss-20b scores 69.9 (B) on agent readiness against Inkling-Small's 66.5 (B), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. Inkling-Small leads on capability and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- gpt-oss-20b: grade B, 69.9/100, rank #8 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gpt-oss-20b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gpt-oss-20b.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### gpt-oss-20b (B)\n\nGood for: Local agents on a 24 GB GPU or Mac that want a permissive licence, wide runtime support and documented structured output, one tool call at a time\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 90 against 55\n- Risk, 85 against 70\n- Agent interface, 90 against 85\n\nWatch for: No reply from OpenAI to any discussion since August 2025, and template reports wait unanswered\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 49\n- Documentation and upkeep, 82 against 42\n\nWatch for: The smallest build Thinking Machines publishes needs about 205 GB\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | gpt-oss-20b | Inkling-Small | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 49 | 63 | Inkling-Small +14 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 90 | 55 | gpt-oss-20b +35 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 85 | 70 | gpt-oss-20b +15 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 90 | 85 | gpt-oss-20b +5 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 42 | 82 | Inkling-Small +40 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **69.9 · B** | **66.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | gpt-oss-20b | Inkling-Small |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | OpenAI | 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 | 2025-08-26 | 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 | 3.5/5 (4) | 3.5/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**gpt-oss-20b.** gpt-oss-20b is a cousin for reasoning, coding and single tool calls with structured output, under plain Apache 2.0. It needs about 17 GB with a working context, and five inference providers serve it. The main risks are that it trails o4-mini at keeping system instructions above user ones, and OpenAI hasn't answered a report since August 2025.\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### gpt-oss-20b\n\n1. Start it with `ollama run gpt-oss:20b` (the build that fits the reference machine), or `vllm serve openai/gpt-oss-20b` with a current vLLM release rather than the card's pinned vllm==0.10.1+gptoss wheel\n2. Use the harmony format through the chat template or openai-harmony; OpenAI says the model doesn't work correctly without it\n3. Parse tool calls and reasoning with openai-harmony; calls come on the commentary channel ending in `\u003c|call|\u003e`, reasoning on the analysis channel\n4. Set effort with `Reasoning: high` (or low, medium) in the system message, or `reasoning_effort` in the template; medium is the default\n5. Ask for JSON by putting a JSON Schema under `# Response Formats` in the developer message\n6. Drop earlier reasoning after a final answer but pass it back after tool calls, and don't show the analysis channel to users\n7. Expect one tool call per turn; run several in sequence rather than in parallel\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, gpt-oss-20b or Inkling-Small?\n\ngpt-oss-20b scores 69.9 (B) on agent readiness against Inkling-Small's 66.5 (B), and leads in 3 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/gpt-oss-20b-vs-inkling-small.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpt-oss-20b-vs-inkling-small.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"gpt-oss-20b\", \"b\": \"inkling-small\"}`. 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