# Inkling-Small vs MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B (slim)

> Inkling-Small scores 67 (B) to MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B's 61 (C) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Inkling-Small scores 67 (B) on agent readiness against MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B's 61 (C), and leads in 3 of 4 scored categories. MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B leads on reach. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Inkling-Small: B 67, rank #13 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small.min.md
- MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B: C 61, rank #76 of 160 open-weight models · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm-v-4-7-1b.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 55; Agent interface, 85 against 70; Documentation and upkeep, 87 against 48.
- MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B, good for Agents that need a cheap local model to read screenshots, photos and short video on a phone, a laptop or beside a bigger model Ahead on Reach, 95 against 55.

| Category | Inkling-Small | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capability (35%) | pending | pending |
| Reach (25%) | 55 | 95 |
| Risk (20%) | 70 | 55 |
| Agent interface (10%) | 85 | 70 |
| Documentation and upkeep (10%) | 87 | 48 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Inkling-Small | MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Thinking Machines Lab | OpenBMB |
| Last release | 2026-07-31 | 2026-10-30 |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Reach, MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B +40: Inkling-Small 55 (Memory 5 of 30, the smallest 4-bit build is Thinking Machines' NVFP4 at 170.8 GB, about 205 GB with a fifth added, so it needs 256 GB.); MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B 95 (Memory 30, OpenBMB's own IQ4_XS GGUF is 0.64 GB, 1.54 GB with the 0.90 GB vision projector, and 1.54 GB × 1.2 = 1.9 GB, which fits 16 GB with room to spare.)
- Documentation and upkeep, Inkling-Small +39: Inkling-Small 87 (Model card 17 of 20, everything but a dated knowledge cut-off, counting Thinking Machines' own model card page.); MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B 48 (Model card 8, Intended use (image, multi-image and video understanding on device), architecture (early visual-token compression inside the vision encoder) and p…)
- Risk, Inkling-Small +15: Inkling-Small 70 (File safety 25, safetensors only and no repository code to run.); MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B 55 (File safety 25, safetensors in the main repository and the AWQ, GPTQ and int4 builds, GGUF in the GGUF build, with no .bin, .pt, .pth or .py files in the main r…)
- Agent interface, Inkling-Small +15: Inkling-Small 85 (Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository.); MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B 70 (Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository, 7,249 characters.)