# Inkling 2 Small vs Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (slim)

> Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B scores 67.6 (B) to Inkling 2 Small's 58.8 (C) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Inkling 2 Small's 58.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Inkling 2 Small leads on risk. 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
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B: B 67.6, rank #12 of 161 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b.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 60.
- Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B, good for Agents with a 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac that want a quick tool-calling and reasoning cousin with very long context. Ahead on Reach, 90 against 40; Agent interface, 90 against 85; Documentation and upkeep, 80 against 67.

| Category | Inkling 2 Small | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 40 | 90 |
| Risk (20%) | 65 | 60 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 85 | 90 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 67 | 80 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Inkling 2 Small | Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Thinking Machines Lab | NVIDIA |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License (custom, Apache-style, commercial use allowed, not an OSI licence) |
| Last release | 2026-11-12 | 2026-08-24 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2025-12-15 |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Reach, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B +50: 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.); Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B 90 (Memory earns 25 because the smallest 4-bit build is Ollama's NVFP4 MLX build at 18 GB, 21.6 GB with the fifth added, and NVIDIA's own NVFP4 build lands in the s…)
- Documentation and upkeep, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B +13: Inkling 2 Small 67 (Model card 17 of 20, everything but a dated knowledge cut-off.); Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B 80 (The model card earns 20, with all seven items on the card and its subcards.)
- Risk, Inkling 2 Small +5: Inkling 2 Small 65 (File safety 25, safetensors only and no repository code to run.); Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B 60 (File safety earns 15, safetensors only but with the documented serving path passing trust-remote-code and loading a reasoning parser file from the repository.)
- Agent interface, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B +5: Inkling 2 Small 85 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.); Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B 90 (The chat template earns 20 as a Jinja file in the repository.)