# Inkling 2 Small vs Muse Ember (slim)

> Inkling 2 Small and Muse Ember score within a point of each other for llm inference, 52.1 and 51.8 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Inkling 2 Small and Muse Ember score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 52.1 (D) and 51.8 (D). Muse Ember leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and security & auth. Both do llm inference.

- Inkling 2 Small: D 52.1, rank #1001 of 1515 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-2-small.min.md
- Muse Ember: D 51.8, rank #1017 of 1515 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-ember.min.md
- Inkling 2 Small, good for Developers who want a capable multimodal open-family model through an OpenAI-compatible API today, or to fine-tune it on Tinker, and who can live with a beta surface until the weights are published. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 70 against 60; Maintenance & community, 75 against 46; Transparency & trust, 64 against 53.
- Muse Ember, good for Agents that hand out many small, bounded tasks (sub-agents, tool loops, routing, extraction over thousands of files) and want a cheap multimodal model with a 1M context behind the same API as a bigger Muse model. Ahead on Reliability, 40 against 30; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 62; Security & auth, 64 against 57.

| Category | Inkling 2 Small | Muse Ember |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 30 | 40 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 60 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 64 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 46 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 53 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Inkling 2 Small | Muse Ember |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Thinking Machines Lab | Meta |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://tinker.thinkingmachines.dev/services/tinker-prod/oai/api/v1` | `https://api.meta.ai/v1` |
| Licence | Proprietary for now, used through Tinker under the Tinker Terms of Use and Thinking Machines' Model Acceptable Use Policy, per the model card. Thinking Machines says it will publish the weights under Apache 2.0 the week after launch, once outside safety testing is done | Closed model, used through Meta Model API and Muse Code under the Meta Model API Terms of Service (last updated 9 October 2026). No open weights; Meta's open-weight models are Muse Spark Open and Muse Glimmer |
| Last release | 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-09 |
| Terms last updated | not read yet | 2026-10-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | not read yet | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | yes |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, Inkling 2 Small +29: Inkling 2 Small 75 (Model reading.); Muse Ember 46 (Model reading.)
- Transparency & trust, Inkling 2 Small +11: Inkling 2 Small 64 (Editorial half.); Muse Ember 53 (Editorial half.)
- Reliability, Muse Ember +10: Inkling 2 Small 30 (Model reading, for the surface it's called on, Tinker's serverless inference and OpenAI-compatible API.); Muse Ember 40 (Model reading, for the surface it's called on, Meta Model API.)
- Schema & documentation, Inkling 2 Small +10: Inkling 2 Small 70 (Model reading.); Muse Ember 60 (Model reading.)
- Agent ergonomics, Muse Ember +10: Inkling 2 Small 62 (Model reading (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs).); Muse Ember 72 (Model reading.)
- Security & auth, Muse Ember +7: Inkling 2 Small 57 (Platform readings are the tinker listing's.); Muse Ember 64 (Platform readings are the meta-model-api listing's of 4 November.)