# Inkling 2 Small vs Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B (slim)

> Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B scores 66.7 (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 Super 120B A12B scores 66.7 (B) on agent readiness against Inkling 2 Small's 58.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. 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 Super 120B A12B: B 66.7, rank #15 of 161 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b.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.
- Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B, good for Agents on a 128 GB unified machine or Blackwell GPUs that want a long-context, tool-calling reasoning model with documented training data Ahead on Reach, 75 against 40; Agent interface, 90 against 85.

| Category | Inkling 2 Small | Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 40 | 75 |
| Risk (20%) | 65 | 65 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 85 | 90 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 67 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Inkling 2 Small | Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Thinking Machines Lab | NVIDIA |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | NVIDIA Nemotron Open Model License |
| Last release | 2026-11-12 | 2026-03-11 |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Reach, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B +35: 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 Super 120B A12B 75 (Memory earns 10, because the smallest 4-bit build, NVIDIA's 80.3 GB NVFP4, needs about 96 GB with the fifth added, which fits the reference machine but not 64 G…)
- Agent interface, Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B +5: Inkling 2 Small 85 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.); Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B 90 (The chat template earns 20, a Jinja file in the repository.)