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

> Inkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) to LBS-27B's 53.9 (D) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-lbs-27b.md (~6,400 tokens) · this version ~480 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-lbs-27b.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-lbs-27b
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-10-27
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

Inkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against LBS-27B's 53.9 (D), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Inkling-Small: B 66.5, rank #14 of 113 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small.min.md
- LBS-27B: D 53.9, rank #91 of 113 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lbs-27b.min.md
- Inkling-Small, good for Teams with 256 GB or more of datacentre GPU memory who want an open multimodal agent model with audio input and adjustable thinking. Ahead on Risk, 70 against 50; Agent interface, 85 against 70; Documentation and upkeep, 82 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.

| Category | Inkling-Small | LBS-27B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 55 | 55 |
| Risk (20%) | 70 | 50 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 85 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 82 | 43 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Inkling-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 | 2026-07-31 | 2026-10-26 |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | none |