{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "inkling-2-small", "name": "Inkling 2 Small", "vendor": "Thinking Machines Lab", "vendorUrl": "https://thinkingmachines.ai", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "Inkling 2 Small is Thinking Machines Lab's mixture-of-experts model, 594B total and 17B active parameters, taking text and images and returning text. It runs on Tinker for inference and fine-tuning, with open weights promised.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-2-small", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-2-small.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-2-small.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inkling-2-small.json", "dns": "inkling-2-small.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "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", "transports": [], "remoteUrl": "https://tinker.thinkingmachines.dev/services/tinker-prod/oai/api/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "A Tinker API key from the Tinker console, read from TINKER_API_KEY and passed as the OpenAI client's api_key on the OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or used by the Tinker Python SDK. Sign-up is a browser flow at auth.thinkingmachines.ai, and the quickstart asks for payment details in Billing before training, per the tinker listing.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Serverless inference (beta) is $0.30 per million input tokens, $0.03 cached and $1.00 output, at 256K context. On the training side prefill is the same $0.30, sampling $1.00, and training $1.50 per million at 64K or $3.00 at 256K. No free tier is listed (checked 2026-11-06).", "priceSummary": "Pay per use", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on Tinker's models and pricing page or its OpenAI-compatible API page, and Tinker bills against an account with payment details (checked 2026-11-06).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://thinkingmachines.ai/model-card/inkling-2-small/", "llmsTxt": "https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "moe", "multimodal", "vision", "reasoning", "openai-compatible", "usage-priced", "card-required", "beta", "llms-txt", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 52.1, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 899, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1354, "categoryRank": 28, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 20, "reliability": 30, "schema": 70, "security": 57, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A new multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines, callable today through Tinker's OpenAI-compatible endpoint at $0.30 and $1.00 per million tokens, with strong vendor-reported coding and agent scores. Tinker's serverless inference is beta, with no status page or SLA, and the weights aren't public yet.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "OpenAI-compatible chat and completions endpoint, so the OpenAI SDKs work with a Tinker key", "$0.30 input, $0.03 cached and $1.00 output per million tokens, published without a login", "Text and image input, a 256K context on Tinker and up to 1M per the model card", "reasoning_effort from none to xhigh or a number, with reasoning returned separately", "A model card with intended use, limitations, training data sources and safety testing that includes outside red-teaming", "Thinking Machines says Apache 2.0 weights follow a week after launch" ], "weaknesses": [ "Serverless inference and the OpenAI-compatible API are both labelled beta, with a waitlist for higher throughput", "No status page, SLA or published rate limits for serverless inference", "Tool-calling format and structured output aren't documented for this model", "No free tier, and sign-up is a browser flow with payment details", "Benchmark results are Thinking Machines' own, with no independent results yet" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call https://tinker.thinkingmachines.dev/services/tinker-prod/oai/api/v1 with an OpenAI client and TINKER_API_KEY, using /chat/completions", "The serverless model ID is thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small:peft:262144:sampling-nvfp4, per Tinker's pricing page. The OpenAI page's examples use your own checkpoint paths, so confirm it before relying on it", "Pass reasoning_effort as none to xhigh or 0.0 to 0.99 (default 0.9); reasoning arrives in reasoning_content unless separate_reasoning is false", "Keep images between 40 and 4096 px a side, per the model card", "Validate JSON yourself, since structured output and the tool-call format aren't documented", "Plan for a move to open weights. When they publish, the open-weights listing will carry sizes and runtimes" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 52.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 62, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 20, "reliability": 30, "schema": 70, "security": 57, "transparency": 60 }, "provenanceScore": 68, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://tinker.thinkingmachines.dev/services/tinker-prod/oai/api/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TINKER_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small:peft:262144:sampling-nvfp4\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}],\n \"reasoning_effort\": \"low\"\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/inkling-2-small" }, "sameCompany": [ "inkling", "inkling-small" ], "sameModel": [ "tinker" ], "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Thinking Machines Lab, Inc. (named as provider on the model card)", "domain": "thinkingmachines.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "domainNote": "Not looked up: RDAP isn't requested under the 1 November 2026 rules.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://thinkingmachines.ai/legal/terms/", "privacy": "https://thinkingmachines.ai/legal/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/changelog/", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "The launch post and model card are on thinkingmachines.ai and name Thinking Machines Lab, Inc. as provider. The OpenAI-compatible endpoint is on thinkingmachines.dev, which Tinker's own docs give as the production base URL, so it's read as a domain the vendor controls; its registration wasn't looked up.", "Thinking Machines' terms bar scraping the Services, which the 4 November re-check read as a ban and paused. The founder decided on 6 November 2026 that reading at a person's pace is fine, so four pages were read one at a time: the launch post, the model card, the models and pricing page and the OpenAI-compatible API page. tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai has no robots.txt; thinkingmachines.ai's has no rules.", "security.txt lists security-reports@thinkingmachines.ai and expires 2029-07-13, per the 2 November reading.", "No status page was found." ], "score": 68 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-2-small.json", "live": { "slug": "inkling-2-small", "probe": { "target": "https://tinker.thinkingmachines.dev/services/tinker-prod/oai/api/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-06T09:47:32.967989265Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 389, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 398, "p95ms24h": 429, "samples24h": 47, "samples30d": 47, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 47, "ok": 47 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-06T09:47:32.967989265Z" } }, "answer": "Inkling 2 Small scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against SWE-2 Flash's 36.4 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SWE-2 Flash leads on reliability.", "b": { "slug": "swe-2-flash", "name": "SWE-2 Flash", "vendor": "Cognition AI, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2-flash", "kind": "model", "category": "inference", "summary": "SWE-2 Flash is Cognition's small, fast coding model, mid-trained and reinforcement-trained from Thinking Machines' Inkling-Small (276B total, 12B active parameters). It runs inside Devin Desktop and Devin CLI, with no model API of its own and no public weights.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swe-2-flash", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swe-2-flash.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swe-2-flash.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/swe-2-flash.json", "dns": "swe-2-flash.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Proprietary model, used through Devin Desktop and Devin CLI under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service. The weights are not public; Cognition says it is building a programme to share them with industry partners and researchers", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No model API or key of its own. A person signs in to Devin Desktop, or runs `devin auth login` for Devin CLI, through a browser (enterprise users through their identity provider). The CLI then keeps an API token in credentials.toml that by default is persistent and does not expire, and the docs warn that anyone with the file can authenticate as that user. Enterprise admins choose which models a team may use with a model allowlist.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI through 30 November 2026, per the launch post. Afterwards it is billed against the plan's daily and weekly quota, then extra usage at API pricing. The post says one-fifth the price of SWE-2, whose list price is $3.00 input, $0.30 cached input and $15.00 output per million tokens, but no SWE-2 Flash figure is published: the docs' cost table loads in the browser and the models pages don't list it yet (checked 2026-11-04). Plans are Free $0, Pro $20 a month, Max $200 a month and Teams $80 a month plus $40 per full seat. The docs say Free tier users only have SWE-1.6, so whether Free reaches SWE-2 Flash is unconfirmed.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No model endpoint to pay. No x402, MPP or L402 on the Devin pricing page, the Devin Desktop models page or the launch post (checked 2026-11-04).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-04" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.devin.ai/desktop/models", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.devin.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "inference.llm" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "model", "closed-source", "coding", "moe", "cli", "desktop-app", "llms-txt", "status-page", "soc2", "iso27001", "sla", "freemium", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-11-04", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 36.4, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1238, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1354, "categoryRank": 33, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 10, "maintenance": 53, "payments": 20, "reliability": 50, "schema": 29, "security": 53, "transparency": 64 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-04" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "The launch post says 'On leading evals, SWE-2 Flash outperforms all American open-weight models'. The post's own table, a first-hand source, gives Meta's Muse Spark Open (American, open weights, released 15 October 2026) 54.0 on SWE-Atlas QA against SWE-2 Flash's 50.0, and Meta's own figure for Muse Spark Open is 58. A 'surpasses' claim a first-hand source shows false is a deduction of 2 (research/new-2026-11-04-ripple-swe2/NEWLIST.md, rule 4). The case against: SWE-2 Flash leads every other row it shares with the American open-weight models in the table, and DeepSWE 1.1 is 60.1 to 60.0, so 'on leading evals' can be read as overall. Proposed for the founder to confirm at landing, as xiaomi-ocr-0's was" ], "verdict": "A new small coding model from Cognition that anyone can try free in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI until 30 November 2026, with strong vendor-reported coding scores. It has no model API, no published per-token price, context length or model card, and no public weights, so an agent can reach it only by driving Devin's own CLI.", "bestFor": "People already using Devin Desktop or Devin CLI who want a cheaper, faster model for routine coding work such as automations, reviews and small changes, while it is free in November 2026.", "strengths": [ "Free in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI through 30 November 2026, and selectable per run with `devin --model` or `/model`", "Cognition reports large gains over its base model, Terminal-Bench 4.0 from 0.9 to 20.0 and FrontierCode 2.0 from 3.2 to 24.0, with the full benchmark table in the post", "Runs inside Devin CLI's sandbox, permissions and hooks, and enterprise admins can allow or block it per team", "Cognition holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and publishes an SLA for contracts that include one", "Status page with a Desktop Agent component, and in the 90 days to 4 November no incident names Desktop or the CLI, only a scheduled extension marketplace maintenance on 7 August" ], "weaknesses": [ "No model API, OpenAPI entry or model card. The Devin API's session agents list SWE-2 but not SWE-2 Flash", "No per-token price, context length, output limit or reasoning settings published for it, and the docs' models pages don't list it yet", "The weights are withheld for now, with a partner and researcher programme promised but not yet described", "Customer data may be used for model training by default on self-serve plans, with the opt-out on paid plans only", "The CLI's login token is persistent and doesn't expire by default, and no rate limit figures or retry guidance are published" ], "agentNotes": [ "There is no endpoint to call. Run Devin CLI single-turn with `devin -p` and pick the model with `--model`; the SWE-2 Flash model ID isn't documented yet, so check `/model` in the CLI first", "Don't rely on the short name `swe`. The docs say it resolves to the latest model in the family, which may be SWE-2 rather than SWE-2 Flash", "Plan for billing to start on 1 December 2026. The free period covers Devin Desktop and CLI only, not Devin cloud sessions", "Treat Cognition's benchmark figures as the vendor's. No independent result for SWE-2 Flash was found", "Keep `credentials.toml` private. The token in it doesn't expire by default and carries the signed-in user's access" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 36.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 10, "maintenance": 53, "payments": 20, "reliability": 50, "schema": 29, "security": 53, "transparency": 56 }, "provenanceScore": 72, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-04", "maintenance": "2026-11-04", "payments": "2026-11-04", "reliability": "2026-11-04", "schema": "2026-11-04", "security": "2026-11-04", "transparency": "2026-11-04" }, "last": "2026-11-04", "oldest": "2026-11-04", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "Install Devin CLI or Devin Desktop from https://devin.ai/download, sign in with `devin auth login`, then choose SWE-2 Flash with `/model`" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm", "tool": "https://letme.dev/swe-2-flash" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cognition AI, Inc.", "domain": "cognition.com", "domainRegistered": "", "domainNote": "Not looked up: RDAP isn't requested under the 1 November 2026 rules. The product runs on devin.ai, registered 2022-12-06 per the devin listing's RDAP check of 8 October 2026.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cognition.com/legal/platform-terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://cognition.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://www.devinstatus.com", "changelog": "https://docs.devin.ai/release-notes/overview", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-04", "notes": [ "The launch post is on cognition.com, signed by the Cognition Team, and the Devin docs, pricing page and status page link the same company. The platform terms (30 June 2026) name Cognition AI, Inc.", "The website terms of use (13 May 2024) and platform terms were read for automated-access limits and have none. cognition.com's robots.txt disallows only /downloads/, devin.ai's only /top-secret and /assets/downloads/, docs.devin.ai's /cdn-cgi/ and /_next/ (with Content-Signal ai-input=yes), and www.devinstatus.com's /api/ and /embed/.", "security.txt is none per the devin listing's 8 October check, not re-read. The docs give a security address for vulnerability reports.", "No SWE-2 Flash entry in the Devin release notes, whose newest is 2 November 2026." ], "score": 72 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swe-2-flash.json", "live": { "slug": "swe-2-flash", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://www.devinstatus.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-06T09:43:51.607430555Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cognition.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T15:55:35.203328276Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.devin.ai/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-05T15:27:25.285464459Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-06T09:43:51.607430555Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 52, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "inkling-2-small", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs). A 256K served context, max_tokens and a priced cache at $0.03 per million; tool use isn't documented for this model (15 of 25). Output-size controls through max_tokens, reasoning_effort and separate_reasoning (15 of 20). One documented error, the 400 for unsupported reasoning_effort (5 of 20). Stable request IDs make SDK sampling retries safe, per the tinker listing (15 of 20). OpenAI's SDKs work against the endpoint, with Tinker's Python SDK besides, and reasoning defaults to 0.9 (12 of 15). 15 + 15 + 5 + 15 + 12 = 62.", "b": "Model reading (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs). Tool use is Devin's harness, not something a caller configures; no context length, output limit or cache price is published for SWE-2 Flash (5 of 25). No documented output-size or reasoning controls for this model; SWE-2's effort levels aren't stated for Flash (0 of 20). No model-level error documentation (0 of 20). No idempotency or retry guidance (0 of 20). One flag or picker selects it and `devin -p` runs a single turn and prints to stdout, but there is no SDK or direct endpoint (5 of 15). 5 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 5 = 10." }, "scores": { "a": 62, "b": 10 } }, { "by": 41, "category": "schema", "leads": "inkling-2-small", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading. No OpenAPI file of its own; the OpenAI-compatible chat and completions endpoints and the typed Python SDK are the contract, as the tinker listing reads it (15). llms.txt on the docs host, per the tinker listing's 1 October check (10). The model card states intended use (agentic and tool-use systems, coding assistants, chatbots, RAG), inputs, outputs and limitations, and the launch post its benchmarks (16 of 20). Model IDs, context lengths and the reasoning_effort values (none to xhigh, or 0.0 to 0.99) are documented; the tool-call format and structured output aren't, for this model (8 of 15). A Python example and an HTTP 400 for models without reasoning_effort, with no error page (6 of 15). A dated Tinker changelog and a model deprecations page, per the tinker listing (15). 15 + 10 + 16 + 8 + 6 + 15 = 70.", "b": "Model reading. No model API, so no OpenAPI entry; the Devin v3 OpenAPI file lists SWE-2 agents only, and no model card was found (0). docs.devin.ai serves llms.txt and Markdown copies of every page (10). The launch post says what it is for (automations, code review, feature development, documentation) and the CLI docs say when to pick a SWE model, but the models pages don't list SWE-2 Flash yet (6 of 20). No documented model ID, reasoning settings, context or output limits to type (0 of 15). The CLI pages show `--model` and `/model` examples, with no model-specific errors (3 of 15). Named, dated model versions on Cognition's blog and public release notes, but no release note for SWE-2 Flash yet; the newest is 2 November (10 of 15). 0 + 10 + 6 + 0 + 3 + 10 = 29." }, "scores": { "a": 70, "b": 29 } }, { "by": 22, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "inkling-2-small", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading. Released 5 November 2026 (30). Churn and notice in place of release counts: Inkling, Inkling-Small (30 July) and Inkling 2 Small in about four months, and a deprecations page with dated retirements and a promise to 'aim to give advance notice' by email, with no stated period, per the tinker listing (10 of 20). A public changelog and a support address and Discord, per the tinker listing (10 of 15). Current official SDKs, Tinker's Python SDK and the OpenAI-compatible endpoint (15). SDK and cookbook CI, per the tinker listing (10). 30 + 10 + 10 + 15 + 10 = 75.", "b": "Model reading. Released 4 November 2026 (30). Churn and notice in place of release counts: SWE-1.6, SWE-1.7, SWE-1.7 Lightning, SWE-2 (10 September) and now SWE-2 Flash in a few months, with no model deprecation notice period found and short names that move to the newest model (10 of 20). Public release notes and a support address, no public tracker (10 of 25). No official SDK for the model (0 of 15). The docs are kept current but don't yet cover this model (3 of 10). 30 + 10 + 10 + 0 + 3 = 53." }, "scores": { "a": 75, "b": 53 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "reliability", "leads": "swe-2-flash", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Model reading, for the surface it's called on, Tinker's serverless inference and OpenAI-compatible API. No status page found, per the tinker listing's checks of 1 October and 4 November (0), so no readable incident history (5). The only published limit is the in-flight sample cap of 2,000, per the tinker listing's 1 October check; the OpenAI-compatible page gives no numbers and says higher or more stable throughput needs the waitlist (10). The SDK retries sampling with stable request IDs, per the tinker listing's reading of the SDK repository; the OpenAI-compatible page has no retry guidance (15). No SLA found (0). Serverless inference is 'currently in beta' on the models and pricing page and the OpenAI-compatible API is labelled Beta, read 6 November (0). 0 + 5 + 10 + 15 + 0 + 0 = 30.", "b": "Model reading, for the surface it runs on, Devin Desktop and Devin CLI. Status page at www.devinstatus.com (Atlassian Statuspage) with Desktop Agent and Desktop Tab components besides the cloud ones, read on 4 November 2026 (20). The history feed for the 90 days from 6 August lists 'Devin unavailable' for 20 minutes on 13 August with no component named, read as across the board and a major as on the devin listing; Devin Cloud unavailable on 13 August and the web app down on 24 September name cloud surfaces this model doesn't use; the rest are degraded-performance incidents (new sessions on 3 September, 'multiple services' on 17 September, Ask Devin on 26 October, automation triggers on 4 November) and session queuing on 10 and 11 August, read as minor and a scheduled Devin Desktop extension marketplace upgrade on 7 August, read as maintenance. One major (10). No rate limit figures for the model or the CLI; usage is a daily and weekly quota with no numbers (0). No 429, backoff or retry guidance for this surface (0). Cognition publishes an SLA (25 February 2026) with uptime and response times that applies when included in an order form, read as a contractual SLA on Enterprise, as on other listings (10). The launch post makes it available today with no preview or beta label (10). 20 + 10 + 0 + 0 + 10 + 10 = 50." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 50 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Model API", "b": "Model API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Thinking Machines Lab", "b": "Cognition AI, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://tinker.thinkingmachines.dev/services/tinker-prod/oai/api/v1", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "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", "b": "Proprietary model, used through Devin Desktop and Devin CLI under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service. The weights are not public; Cognition says it is building a programme to share them with industry partners and researchers", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-11-05", "b": "2026-11-04", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "2026-06-30", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "2026-03-09", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes, with an opt-out", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Inkling 2 Small scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against SWE-2 Flash's 36.4 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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It has no model API, no published per-token price, context length or model card, and no public weights, so an agent can reach it only by driving Devin's own CLI." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-2-small-vs-swe-2-flash", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-2-small-vs-swe-2-flash.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-2-small-vs-swe-2-flash.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-2-small-vs-swe-2-flash.min.md" }, "markdown": "Inkling 2 Small scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against SWE-2 Flash's 36.4 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SWE-2 Flash leads on reliability. Both do llm inference.\n\n- Inkling 2 Small: grade D, 52.1/100, rank #899 of 1354. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-2-small.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inkling-2-small.json\n- SWE-2 Flash: grade F, 36.4/100, rank #1238 of 1354. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/swe-2-flash.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/swe-2-flash.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 596 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Inkling 2 Small (D)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 70 against 29\n- Agent ergonomics, 62 against 10\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 53\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n\nWatch for: Serverless inference and the OpenAI-compatible API are both labelled beta, with a waitlist for higher throughput\n\n### SWE-2 Flash (F)\n\nGood for: People already using Devin Desktop or Devin CLI who want a cheaper, faster model for routine coding work such as automations, reviews and small changes, while it is free in November 2026.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 50 against 30\n\nWatch for: No model API, OpenAPI entry or model card. The Devin API's session agents list SWE-2 but not SWE-2 Flash\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Inkling 2 Small +52\n\n- Inkling 2 Small (62): Model reading (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs). A 256K served context, max_tokens and a priced cache at $0.03 per million; tool use isn't documented for this model (15 of 25). Output-size controls through max_tokens, reasoning_effort and separate_reasoning (15 of 20). One documented error, the 400 for unsupported reasoning_effort (5 of 20). Stable request IDs make SDK sampling retries safe, per the tinker listing (15 of 20). OpenAI's SDKs work against the endpoint, with Tinker's Python SDK besides, and reasoning defaults to 0.9 (12 of 15). 15 + 15 + 5 + 15 + 12 = 62.\n- SWE-2 Flash (10): Model reading (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs). Tool use is Devin's harness, not something a caller configures; no context length, output limit or cache price is published for SWE-2 Flash (5 of 25). No documented output-size or reasoning controls for this model; SWE-2's effort levels aren't stated for Flash (0 of 20). No model-level error documentation (0 of 20). No idempotency or retry guidance (0 of 20). One flag or picker selects it and `devin -p` runs a single turn and prints to stdout, but there is no SDK or direct endpoint (5 of 15). 5 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 5 = 10.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Inkling 2 Small +41\n\n- Inkling 2 Small (70): Model reading. No OpenAPI file of its own; the OpenAI-compatible chat and completions endpoints and the typed Python SDK are the contract, as the tinker listing reads it (15). llms.txt on the docs host, per the tinker listing's 1 October check (10). The model card states intended use (agentic and tool-use systems, coding assistants, chatbots, RAG), inputs, outputs and limitations, and the launch post its benchmarks (16 of 20). Model IDs, context lengths and the reasoning_effort values (none to xhigh, or 0.0 to 0.99) are documented; the tool-call format and structured output aren't, for this model (8 of 15). A Python example and an HTTP 400 for models without reasoning_effort, with no error page (6 of 15). A dated Tinker changelog and a model deprecations page, per the tinker listing (15). 15 + 10 + 16 + 8 + 6 + 15 = 70.\n- SWE-2 Flash (29): Model reading. No model API, so no OpenAPI entry; the Devin v3 OpenAPI file lists SWE-2 agents only, and no model card was found (0). docs.devin.ai serves llms.txt and Markdown copies of every page (10). The launch post says what it is for (automations, code review, feature development, documentation) and the CLI docs say when to pick a SWE model, but the models pages don't list SWE-2 Flash yet (6 of 20). No documented model ID, reasoning settings, context or output limits to type (0 of 15). The CLI pages show `--model` and `/model` examples, with no model-specific errors (3 of 15). Named, dated model versions on Cognition's blog and public release notes, but no release note for SWE-2 Flash yet; the newest is 2 November (10 of 15). 0 + 10 + 6 + 0 + 3 + 10 = 29.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Inkling 2 Small +22\n\n- Inkling 2 Small (75): Model reading. Released 5 November 2026 (30). Churn and notice in place of release counts: Inkling, Inkling-Small (30 July) and Inkling 2 Small in about four months, and a deprecations page with dated retirements and a promise to 'aim to give advance notice' by email, with no stated period, per the tinker listing (10 of 20). A public changelog and a support address and Discord, per the tinker listing (10 of 15). Current official SDKs, Tinker's Python SDK and the OpenAI-compatible endpoint (15). SDK and cookbook CI, per the tinker listing (10). 30 + 10 + 10 + 15 + 10 = 75.\n- SWE-2 Flash (53): Model reading. Released 4 November 2026 (30). Churn and notice in place of release counts: SWE-1.6, SWE-1.7, SWE-1.7 Lightning, SWE-2 (10 September) and now SWE-2 Flash in a few months, with no model deprecation notice period found and short names that move to the newest model (10 of 20). Public release notes and a support address, no public tracker (10 of 25). No official SDK for the model (0 of 15). The docs are kept current but don't yet cover this model (3 of 10). 30 + 10 + 10 + 0 + 3 = 53.\n\n### Reliability: SWE-2 Flash +20\n\n- Inkling 2 Small (30): Model reading, for the surface it's called on, Tinker's serverless inference and OpenAI-compatible API. No status page found, per the tinker listing's checks of 1 October and 4 November (0), so no readable incident history (5). The only published limit is the in-flight sample cap of 2,000, per the tinker listing's 1 October check; the OpenAI-compatible page gives no numbers and says higher or more stable throughput needs the waitlist (10). The SDK retries sampling with stable request IDs, per the tinker listing's reading of the SDK repository; the OpenAI-compatible page has no retry guidance (15). No SLA found (0). Serverless inference is 'currently in beta' on the models and pricing page and the OpenAI-compatible API is labelled Beta, read 6 November (0). 0 + 5 + 10 + 15 + 0 + 0 = 30.\n- SWE-2 Flash (50): Model reading, for the surface it runs on, Devin Desktop and Devin CLI. Status page at www.devinstatus.com (Atlassian Statuspage) with Desktop Agent and Desktop Tab components besides the cloud ones, read on 4 November 2026 (20). The history feed for the 90 days from 6 August lists 'Devin unavailable' for 20 minutes on 13 August with no component named, read as across the board and a major as on the devin listing; Devin Cloud unavailable on 13 August and the web app down on 24 September name cloud surfaces this model doesn't use; the rest are degraded-performance incidents (new sessions on 3 September, 'multiple services' on 17 September, Ask Devin on 26 October, automation triggers on 4 November) and session queuing on 10 and 11 August, read as minor and a scheduled Devin Desktop extension marketplace upgrade on 7 August, read as maintenance. One major (10). No rate limit figures for the model or the CLI; usage is a daily and weekly quota with no numbers (0). No 429, backoff or retry guidance for this surface (0). Cognition publishes an SLA (25 February 2026) with uptime and response times that applies when included in an order form, read as a contractual SLA on Enterprise, as on other listings (10). The launch post makes it available today with no preview or beta label (10). 20 + 10 + 0 + 0 + 10 + 10 = 50.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Inkling 2 Small | SWE-2 Flash | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 50 | SWE-2 Flash +20 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 29 | Inkling 2 Small +41 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 10 | Inkling 2 Small +52 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 53 | Inkling 2 Small +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 53 | Inkling 2 Small +22 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 64 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.1 · D** | **36.4 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Inkling 2 Small | SWE-2 Flash |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | Model API |\n| Vendor | Thinking Machines Lab | Cognition AI, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://tinker.thinkingmachines.dev/services/tinker-prod/oai/api/v1` | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| 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 | Proprietary model, used through Devin Desktop and Devin CLI under Cognition's Platform Terms of Service. The weights are not public; Cognition says it is building a programme to share them with industry partners and researchers |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-11-05 | 2026-11-04 |\n| Terms last updated | not read yet | 2026-06-30 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | not read yet | 2026-03-09 |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | yes |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Inkling 2 Small.** A new multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines, callable today through Tinker's OpenAI-compatible endpoint at $0.30 and $1.00 per million tokens, with strong vendor-reported coding and agent scores. Tinker's serverless inference is beta, with no status page or SLA, and the weights aren't public yet.\n\n**SWE-2 Flash.** A new small coding model from Cognition that anyone can try free in Devin Desktop and Devin CLI until 30 November 2026, with strong vendor-reported coding scores. It has no model API, no published per-token price, context length or model card, and no public weights, so an agent can reach it only by driving Devin's own CLI.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Inkling 2 Small\n\n1. Call https://tinker.thinkingmachines.dev/services/tinker-prod/oai/api/v1 with an OpenAI client and TINKER_API_KEY, using /chat/completions\n2. The serverless model ID is thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small:peft:262144:sampling-nvfp4, per Tinker's pricing page. The OpenAI page's examples use your own checkpoint paths, so confirm it before relying on it\n3. Pass reasoning_effort as none to xhigh or 0.0 to 0.99 (default 0.9); reasoning arrives in reasoning_content unless separate_reasoning is false\n4. Keep images between 40 and 4096 px a side, per the model card\n5. Validate JSON yourself, since structured output and the tool-call format aren't documented\n6. Plan for a move to open weights. When they publish, the open-weights listing will carry sizes and runtimes\n\n### SWE-2 Flash\n\n1. There is no endpoint to call. Run Devin CLI single-turn with `devin -p` and pick the model with `--model`; the SWE-2 Flash model ID isn't documented yet, so check `/model` in the CLI first\n2. Don't rely on the short name `swe`. The docs say it resolves to the latest model in the family, which may be SWE-2 rather than SWE-2 Flash\n3. Plan for billing to start on 1 December 2026. The free period covers Devin Desktop and CLI only, not Devin cloud sessions\n4. Treat Cognition's benchmark figures as the vendor's. No independent result for SWE-2 Flash was found\n5. Keep `credentials.toml` private. The token in it doesn't expire by default and carries the signed-in user's access\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Inkling 2 Small or SWE-2 Flash?\n\nInkling 2 Small scores 52.1 (D) on agent readiness against SWE-2 Flash's 36.4 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SWE-2 Flash leads on reliability.\n\n### Do Inkling 2 Small and SWE-2 Flash need an API key?\n\nInkling 2 Small needs an API key. SWE-2 Flash takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Inkling 2 Small and SWE-2 Flash without installing anything?\n\nInkling 2 Small has a hosted endpoint at https://tinker.thinkingmachines.dev/services/tinker-prod/oai/api/v1. 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