# Inkling 2 Small vs LBS-27B (slim)

> Inkling 2 Small scores 58.8 (C) to LBS-27B's 55.8 (C) 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 LBS-27B's 55.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. LBS-27B leads on reach. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Inkling 2 Small: C 58.8, rank #102 of 161 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-2-small.min.md
- LBS-27B: C 55.8, rank #119 of 161 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lbs-27b.min.md
- 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 Risk, 65 against 50; Agent interface, 85 against 70; Documentation and upkeep, 67 against 43.
- LBS-27B, good for Agents with about 96 GB of GPU memory that need to find click targets on dense professional screenshots, or read fine detail in large images, and can run a small crop loop and wait for independent results. Ahead on Reach, 60 against 40.

| Category | Inkling 2 Small | LBS-27B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 40 | 60 |
| Risk (20%) | 65 | 50 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 85 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 67 | 43 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Inkling 2 Small | LBS-27B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Thinking Machines Lab | inclusionAI (Ant Group) |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 (the card's metadata and licence section; the LICENSE file sits in the GitHub repository inclusionAI/UI-Venus on its LBS branch, not in the Hugging Face repository) |
| Last release | 2026-11-12 | 2026-10-26 |

Why the edge:
- Documentation and upkeep, Inkling 2 Small +24: Inkling 2 Small 67 (Model card 17 of 20, everything but a dated knowledge cut-off.); LBS-27B 43 (The model card earns 8, with intended use, one limitation and parameters, and no architecture, context, languages or cut-off.)
- Reach, LBS-27B +20: 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.); LBS-27B 60 (Memory earns 10, since the only build is 54.73 GB of BF16, about 66 GB with a fifth added, which fits the reference machine but not 64 GB.)
- Risk, Inkling 2 Small +15: Inkling 2 Small 65 (File safety 25, safetensors only and no repository code to run.); LBS-27B 50 (File safety earns 15, safetensors only but with the documented route running the publisher's scripts to serve it and to write its system prompt.)
- Agent interface, Inkling 2 Small +15: Inkling 2 Small 85 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.); LBS-27B 70 (The chat template earns 20, Qwen's Jinja file in the repository.)