{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "granite-4-2-3b", "name": "Granite 4.2 3B", "vendor": "IBM", "vendorUrl": "https://www.ibm.com/granite", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Granite 4.2 3B is IBM's open-weight dense reasoning model of 3.7B parameters, post-trained from Granite 4.1 3B Base, with switchable thinking, tool calling and a 131,072-token context, published in BF16, FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-4-2-3b.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-GGUF" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-fp8" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-nvfp4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-q4-mlx" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "granite4.2:3b" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. None of IBM's 4.2 3B repositories is gated (checked 2026-10-21). The files carry a sigstore signature (model.sig) that IBM documents how to verify.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. watsonx.ai lists Granite 4.1 models but not 4.2, and DeepInfra is the only inference provider Hugging Face maps for it. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 7.3 GB for the BF16 files and 2.2 GB for Ollama's Q4_K_M build (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://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "small", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "multilingual", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "fp8", "fp4", "gguf", "mlx", "signed", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-20", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.8, "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": 1197, "categoryRank": 49, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 21, "interface": 85, "reach": 95, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 92 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A small reasoning cousin for tool calls, coding and multilingual chat that runs almost anywhere, from a 2.2 GB Ollama build to vLLM and SGLang, under plain Apache 2.0 with signed files and a dataset disclosure. Thinking turns off or shortens per request. It has no published safety results and no documented JSON mode.", "bestFor": "Agents on small hardware that want a permissive reasoning model for tool calls and coding, with thinking they can switch off", "strengths": [ "Apache 2.0 with nothing added, ungated, signed with sigstore in IBM's own organisation", "2.2 GB as Ollama's Q4_K_M build, with IBM's own FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX builds", "Runs in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers", "Tool format and parser documented for vLLM and SGLang, with several calls a turn", "Thinking that turns off or runs at low effort per request", "A machine-readable disclosure of the training datasets with sources and sizes" ], "weaknesses": [ "No safety results published for 4.2, and only general safety cautions", "No documented JSON or schema output", "The card's vLLM route loads a parser plugin from the repository", "Only one inference provider, and watsonx.ai doesn't list 4.2", "No knowledge cut-off, and Granite 4.1 3B carries no note that 4.2 replaced it" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start it with `ollama run granite4.2:3b`; set options.num_ctx in the request, since Ollama's default context is short and the model takes up to 131,072", "With vLLM 0.32.0 or later, serve `ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b` with `--reasoning-parser granite_thinking_parser --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice`; that release has the parser built in, so the card's `--reasoning-parser-plugin ./granite_thinking_parser.py` isn't needed", "With SGLang 0.5.18 or later, `--reasoning-parser auto --tool-call-parser auto` resolve to IBM's recommended parsers, and the reasoning comes back in reasoning_content", "Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 for every mode, as IBM requires", "Pass `enable_thinking` false for direct answers or `low_effort` true for short reasoning, through chat_template_kwargs on an OpenAI-compatible server", "Earlier turns' thinking is stripped by default (`truncate_history_thinking`), so pass it false to keep reasoning in multi-turn history", "For JSON, use the runtime's guided decoding, since IBM documents no JSON mode for 4.2", "Verify the files with `python -m model_signing verify sigstore` and IBM's identity, per IBM's signature guide" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 21, "interface": 85, "reach": 95, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 92 }, "provenanceScore": 87, "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 granite4.2:3b\n# or, with vLLM 0.32.0 or later:\nvllm serve ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b --max-model-len 131072 \\\n --reasoning-parser granite_thinking_parser \\\n --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice", "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"granite4.2:3b\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/granite-4-2-3b" }, "sameCompany": [ "granite-embedding-small-english-r2", "granite-guardian", "granite-switch" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "IBM", "builtOn": "ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b-base (IBM's own base checkpoint, post-trained; named on the card and in its metadata)", "params": "3.66B", "context": 131072, "goodFor": "Small dense reasoning model for tool calling, coding and multilingual chat, with thinking that is on, off or short per request.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-fp8", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-fp8", "who": "publisher", "precision": "fp8", "sizeGB": 4.19, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM" ] }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-nvfp4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-nvfp4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 2.81, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM" ], "note": "GPTQ calibrated with LLM Compressor, per IBM's blog" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "mxfp4", "sizeGB": 2.71, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM" ], "note": "GPTQ calibrated with LLM Compressor, per IBM's blog" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-Q8_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-GGUF/blob/main/granite-4.2-3b-Q8_0.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 3.89, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ] }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-GGUF/blob/main/granite-4.2-3b-Q4_K_M.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 2.24, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "IBM's GGUF repository also holds Q2_K to Q6_K, Q4_0, Q4_1, Q5_0, Q5_1 and BF16 files; Q4_0 is the smallest 4-bit GGUF at 2.13 GB" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-q4-mlx", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-q4-mlx", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4", "sizeGB": 2.07, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "mlx", "runsOn": [ "mlx-lm" ], "note": "The smallest build at 4-bit or better. IBM also publishes q8-mlx (3.90 GB) and bf16-mlx (7.33 GB)" }, { "name": "ollama granite4.2:3b", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/granite4.2:3b", "who": "ollama", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 2.2, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "Q4_K_M, 3.66B parameters, granite architecture, per Ollama's model page (digest 40577dc168a3). Size as Ollama shows it" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 7.33, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ] } ], "run": "ollama run granite4.2:3b", "runBuild": "ollama granite4.2:3b", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 8 }, "family": { "lab": "IBM (Granite)", "family": "Granite 4 (4.0, 4.1, 4.2)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#ibm", "others": [ { "name": "granite-4.2-8b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b", "params": "8B (Hub safetensors count 8.79B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-30b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b", "params": "30B (Hub safetensors count 29.28B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-8b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base", "params": "8B (Hub safetensors count 8.38B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-8b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b", "params": "8B (Hub safetensors count 8.79B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-3b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b-base", "params": "3B (Hub safetensors count 3.40B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-3b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b", "params": "3B (Hub safetensors count 3.40B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-30b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b-base", "params": "30B (Hub safetensors count 28.87B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-30b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b", "params": "30B (Hub safetensors count 28.87B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-350m-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-350m-base", "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 340M)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-350m", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-350m", "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 340M)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-1b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-1b-base", "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.46B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-1b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-1b", "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.46B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-350m-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-350m-base", "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 352M)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-350m", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-350m", "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 352M)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-1b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b-base", "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.63B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-1b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b", "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.63B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-micro-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-micro-base", "params": "3.40B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-micro", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-micro", "params": "3.40B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-tiny-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-tiny-base", "params": "6.94B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-tiny", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-tiny", "params": "6.94B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-small-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small-base", "params": "32.21B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-small", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small", "params": "32.21B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-micro-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro-base", "params": "3.19B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-micro", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro", "params": "3.19B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-tiny-preview", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-tiny-preview", "params": "6.67B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-tiny-base-preview", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-tiny-base-preview", "params": "6.67B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" } ], "olderCount": 64, "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "International Business Machines Corporation (per IBM's naming guidance, as read for granite-guardian)", "domain": "ibm.com", "domainRegistered": "1986-03-19", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b/commits/main", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "IBM's Granite docs page for 4.2 links the ibm-granite collection on Hugging Face and the GitHub repository, and the docs site says it is no longer updated. The domain date is carried from the granite-guardian check.", "The ibm-granite organisation (209 members) isn't verified on the Hub, which the calibration doesn't require.", "Nothing is hosted for this listing, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The changelog is the Hugging Face commit history, 15 commits from 7 August to 20 October 2026, most titled only \"granite-4.2\".", "www.ibm.com/.well-known/security.txt is present with PSIRT contacts and expires on 21 November 2026.", "Released on 25 August 2026 by the card and IBM's blog, which firstReleased uses. The repository and its weight files date from 7 August 2026, the date BATCH.md and the IBM family page used before 21 October." ], "score": 87 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.json" }, "answer": "Inkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 2 of 5 scored categories. Granite 4.2 3B leads on reach 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": 42, "edge": "inkling-small", "granite-4-2-3b": 21, "inkling-small": 63, "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "weight": 35 }, { "by": 40, "edge": "granite-4-2-3b", "granite-4-2-3b": 95, "inkling-small": 55, "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "weight": 25 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "inkling-small", "granite-4-2-3b": 55, "inkling-small": 70, "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "weight": 20 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "granite-4-2-3b": 85, "inkling-small": 85, "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "weight": 10 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "granite-4-2-3b", "granite-4-2-3b": 92, "inkling-small": 82, "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Inkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 2 of 5 scored categories. Granite 4.2 3B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "granite-4-2-3b": "A small reasoning cousin for tool calls, coding and multilingual chat that runs almost anywhere, from a 2.2 GB Ollama build to vLLM and SGLang, under plain Apache 2.0 with signed files and a dataset disclosure. Thinking turns off or shortens per request. It has no published safety results and no documented JSON mode.", "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/granite-4-2-3b-vs-inkling-small", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-inkling-small.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-inkling-small.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-inkling-small.min.md" }, "markdown": "Inkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 2 of 5 scored categories. Granite 4.2 3B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Granite 4.2 3B: grade C, 59.8/100, rank #57 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-4-2-3b.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### Granite 4.2 3B (C)\n\nGood for: Agents on small hardware that want a permissive reasoning model for tool calls and coding, with thinking they can switch off\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 95 against 55\n- Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 82\n\nWatch for: No safety results published for 4.2, and only general safety cautions\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 21\n- Risk, 70 against 55\n\nWatch for: The smallest build Thinking Machines publishes needs about 205 GB\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Granite 4.2 3B | Inkling-Small | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 21 | 63 | Inkling-Small +42 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 95 | 55 | Granite 4.2 3B +40 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 55 | 70 | Inkling-Small +15 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 85 | 85 | even |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 92 | 82 | Granite 4.2 3B +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **59.8 · C** | **66.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Granite 4.2 3B | Inkling-Small |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | IBM | 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 | 2026-10-20 | 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**Granite 4.2 3B.** A small reasoning cousin for tool calls, coding and multilingual chat that runs almost anywhere, from a 2.2 GB Ollama build to vLLM and SGLang, under plain Apache 2.0 with signed files and a dataset disclosure. Thinking turns off or shortens per request. It has no published safety results and no documented JSON mode.\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### Granite 4.2 3B\n\n1. Start it with `ollama run granite4.2:3b`; set options.num_ctx in the request, since Ollama's default context is short and the model takes up to 131,072\n2. With vLLM 0.32.0 or later, serve `ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b` with `--reasoning-parser granite_thinking_parser --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice`; that release has the parser built in, so the card's `--reasoning-parser-plugin ./granite_thinking_parser.py` isn't needed\n3. With SGLang 0.5.18 or later, `--reasoning-parser auto --tool-call-parser auto` resolve to IBM's recommended parsers, and the reasoning comes back in reasoning_content\n4. Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 for every mode, as IBM requires\n5. Pass `enable_thinking` false for direct answers or `low_effort` true for short reasoning, through chat_template_kwargs on an OpenAI-compatible server\n6. Earlier turns' thinking is stripped by default (`truncate_history_thinking`), so pass it false to keep reasoning in multi-turn history\n7. For JSON, use the runtime's guided decoding, since IBM documents no JSON mode for 4.2\n8. Verify the files with `python -m model_signing verify sigstore` and IBM's identity, per IBM's signature guide\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, Granite 4.2 3B or Inkling-Small?\n\nInkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 2 of 5 scored categories. Granite 4.2 3B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-inkling-small.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-inkling-small.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"granite-4-2-3b\", \"b\": \"inkling-small\"}`. 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