{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "inkling-small", "name": "Inkling-Small", "vendor": "Thinking Machines Lab", "vendorUrl": "https://thinkingmachines.ai", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Inkling-Small is Thinking Machines Lab's open-weight mixture-of-experts model, 276B total and 12B active parameters, taking text, images and audio and returning text, with adjustable thinking effort, published in BF16 and NVFP4 under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inkling-small.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. Neither repository is gated (checked 2026-10-21). Thinking Machines' Model Acceptable Use Policy, linked from the card, says that downloading or using the weights binds you to it.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0 with Thinking Machines' Model Acceptable Use Policy on top. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 531.9 GB for the BF16 files and 170.8 GB for the NVFP4 build. Thinking Machines' Tinker serves it as a beta serverless inference API at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://thinkingmachines.ai/model-card/inkling-small/", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "moe", "multimodal", "audio", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "nvfp4", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-07-31", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 66.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 11, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 63, "interface": 85, "reach": 55, "risk": 70, "upkeep": 82 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A mixture-of-experts generalist with images and audio in, several tool calls a turn and per-request thinking effort. It needs about 205 GB for Thinking Machines' NVFP4 build on recent NVIDIA or AMD datacentre GPUs, and Tinker or DeepInfra host it. The main risks are a use policy that binds on download and can change, and no outside safety results.", "bestFor": "Teams with 256 GB or more of datacentre GPU memory who want an open multimodal agent model with audio input and adjustable thinking.", "strengths": [ "Thinking Machines answered 8 of the 9 questions in its discussions", "Safetensors only, with a checksum on every LFS file in the publisher's own organisation", "Thinking effort set per request from none to the maximum, several tool calls a turn and a 1M-token context", "Released support in Transformers, vLLM and SGLang, with inkling tool and reasoning parsers", "A training-content summary with sources, mix and a July 2026 collection cut-off", "Thinking Machines' own Tinker hosts it as beta serverless inference" ], "weaknesses": [ "The smallest build Thinking Machines publishes needs about 205 GB", "Apache 2.0 comes with an acceptable use policy that binds on download and can change at any time", "No release of ggml-org's llama.cpp, Ollama or LM Studio runs it", "Safety results are Thinking Machines' own, with no harness to rerun them and no prompt-injection guidance", "Structured output isn't documented, and the card gives no dated knowledge cut-off" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start the NVFP4 build with SGLang's recipe, `sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4 --tp 8 --enable-multimodal --reasoning-parser inkling --tool-call-parser inkling`, on Blackwell for W4A4", "Use the inkling tool and reasoning parsers in vLLM or SGLang, or Thinking Machines' tml-renderers package to render prompts and parse calls yourself", "Pass `reasoning_effort` as none, minimal, low, medium, high (the default) or max, or a number from 0 to 0.99. The repository's template has no xhigh preset and raises an error for it, though Thinking Machines' docs and SGLang's cookbook list xhigh", "Effort none conditions the model toward no reasoning but doesn't forbid it, and higher effort needs a larger max_tokens", "Tool call arguments must reach the template as an object, not a JSON string, or it raises an error", "Images should be 40 to 4096 px a side and audio 16 kHz WAV under two minutes, per the card", "Use guided decoding or validate JSON yourself, since structured output isn't documented", "Read the Model Acceptable Use Policy before deploying, it binds on download and bars some uses that are legal" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 66.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 63, "interface": 85, "reach": 55, "risk": 70, "upkeep": 82 }, "provenanceScore": 67, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "# per SGLang's cookbook, NVFP4 on 8 Blackwell GPUs:\nsglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4 --tp 8 \\\n --enable-multimodal --reasoning-parser inkling --tool-call-parser inkling", "http": "curl http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}],\n \"reasoning_effort\": \"low\"\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/inkling-small" }, "sameCompany": [ "inkling" ], "sameModel": [ "tinker" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Thinking Machines Lab", "params": "276B", "active": "12B", "context": 1048576, "goodFor": "Mixture-of-experts generalist for coding, agents and tool use with images and audio in, and thinking effort set per request.", "runtimes": [ "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "Inkling-Small-NVFP4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 170.8, "memoryGB": 256, "format": "safetensors", "note": "NVFP4 experts with FP8 and BF16 parts. Thinking Machines says W4A4 needs NVIDIA SM100 or newer, and W4A16 runs on H200" }, { "name": "Inkling-Small", "url": "https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 531.9, "memoryGB": 1024, "format": "safetensors" } ], "run": "sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4 --tp 8 --enable-multimodal --reasoning-parser inkling --tool-call-parser inkling", "runBuild": "Inkling-Small-NVFP4", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 256 }, "family": { "lab": "Thinking Machines Lab", "family": "Inkling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#thinking-machines", "others": [ { "name": "Inkling", "url": "https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling", "params": "952.38B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling" } ], "unrestrictedCopies": 3 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Thinking Machines Lab, Inc. (named on its model card page and in its training-content summary)", "domain": "thinkingmachines.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "domainNote": "thinkingmachines.ai's registration date wasn't read on 21 October 2026.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small/commits/main", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "Thinking Machines' model card page and launch post link the thinkingmachines organisation on Hugging Face, which isn't verified by Hugging Face.", "Nothing is hosted for this listing, so the Apache 2.0 licence and the Model Acceptable Use Policy stand in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The changelog is the repository's commit history, 12 commits from 27 to 31 July 2026, an upload, card updates and community evaluation results.", "thinkingmachines.ai/.well-known/security.txt gives a security contact, a PGP key and an expiry in 2029, and the site publishes a coordinated vulnerability disclosure policy that leaves model safety to a separate incident contact." ], "score": 67 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small.json" }, "answer": "Inkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against MiniCPM5-2B's 60.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. MiniCPM5-2B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep.", "b": { "slug": "minicpm5-2b", "name": "MiniCPM5-2B", "vendor": "OpenBMB", "vendorUrl": "https://openbmb.cn", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "MiniCPM5-2B is OpenBMB's open-weight dense language model of 2.5B parameters for on-device and local use, with thinking, XML tool calls and a 131,072-token context, published on Hugging Face in BF16, GGUF, MLX and GPTQ under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minicpm5-2b.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B-GGUF" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B-MLX" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B-GPTQ" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "openbmb/minicpm5-2b" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository and its GGUF, MLX and GPTQ siblings are not gated (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. OpenBMB sells no per-call access to these weights. Running them costs the hardware, 5.03 GB for the BF16 file and 1.56 GB for OpenBMB's Q4_K_M GGUF (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "small", "on-device", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "gguf", "mlx", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.2, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 48, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 27, "interface": 75, "reach": 90, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 97 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A tiny dense cousin for local tool calling and long context, with published training data and an active publisher. OpenBMB's own 4-bit builds need about 2 GB, so it runs on a laptop or phone in vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama or Transformers. The main risks are always-on thinking, no safety results and use conditions beyond Apache 2.0.", "bestFor": "On-device and laptop agents that want a 2 GB tool-calling helper with long context and open training data", "strengths": [ "OpenBMB's own GGUF, MLX and GPTQ builds, the 4-bit ones under 1.6 GB", "Stock LlamaForCausalLM, so vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama and Transformers load it without a fork", "Tool calls documented with the minicpm5 parser in released vLLM and SGLang, several calls per turn", "131,072 tokens native", "All eight training datasets published on Hugging Face", "OpenBMB answered 16 of 18 discussions and fixed the template on 29 September" ], "weaknesses": [ "OpenBMB documents only a Think mode for the 2B, so every answer starts with reasoning", "No safety evaluation, refusal scope or prompt-injection guidance", "No security.txt, disclosure policy or SECURITY.md", "The card adds use conditions to Apache 2.0, ethical use only and no jailbreak or injection testing", "No hosted endpoint, so an agent without hardware can't call it", "No knowledge cut-off and no structured-output guidance" ], "agentNotes": [ "Smallest start is `ollama run openbmb/minicpm5-2b` (1.6 GB, q4_k_m)", "On vLLM 0.29.0 or later run `vllm serve openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B --max-model-len 131072 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser minicpm5`, or tool calls come back as XML text", "On SGLang 0.5.16 or later add `--tool-call-parser minicpm5 --reasoning-parser qwen3`; SGLang is OpenBMB's recommended backend for tool calls", "Tool calls are XML, `\u003cfunction name=...\u003e\u003cparam name=...\u003e`, not Hermes JSON", "Sample with temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95 and min_p 0.0; llama.cpp's default min_p 0.05 can loop, and repetition_penalty 1.05 helps if it does", "Expect a `\u003cthink\u003e` block before every answer and leave room in max_tokens; enable_thinking false is accepted by the template but OpenBMB doesn't support it for the 2B", "Validate JSON yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented", "Use the main repository's template; the GGUF, MLX and GPTQ copies predate the 29 September fix" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 27, "interface": 75, "reach": 90, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 97 }, "provenanceScore": 53, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "ollama run openbmb/minicpm5-2b\n# or, with vLLM 0.29.0 or later:\nvllm serve openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B --max-model-len 131072 \\\n --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser minicpm5", "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}],\n \"temperature\": 1.0, \"top_p\": 0.95,\n \"chat_template_kwargs\": {\"enable_thinking\": true}\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/minicpm5-2b" }, "sameCompany": [ "minicpm-o-4-5" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "OpenBMB", "builtOn": "openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B-Base", "params": "2.5B", "context": 131072, "goodFor": "Small on-device language model with thinking and XML tool calls, text only.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "MiniCPM5-2B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 5, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM (ROCm)", "SGLang (ROCm)" ] }, { "name": "MiniCPM5-2B-F16", "url": "https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B-GGUF/blob/main/MiniCPM5-2B-F16.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "f16", "sizeGB": 5, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)", "LM Studio" ] }, { "name": "MiniCPM5-2B-Q8_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B-GGUF/blob/main/MiniCPM5-2B-Q8_0.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 2.7, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)", "LM Studio" ] }, { "name": "MiniCPM5-2B-Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B-GGUF/blob/main/MiniCPM5-2B-Q4_K_M.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 1.6, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)", "LM Studio" ] }, { "name": "MiniCPM5-2B-MLX", "url": "https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B-MLX", "who": "publisher", "precision": "4bit", "sizeGB": 1.4, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "mlx", "note": "MLX runs on Apple silicon only" }, { "name": "MiniCPM5-2B-GPTQ", "url": "https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B-GPTQ", "who": "publisher", "precision": "gptq-int4", "sizeGB": 2.1, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "note": "vLLM's quantisation table marks GPTQ unsupported on AMD GPUs" }, { "name": "ollama openbmb/minicpm5-2b:latest", "url": "https://ollama.com/openbmb/minicpm5-2b", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 1.6, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "In the openbmb namespace on ollama.com, taken as OpenBMB's. 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"url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minicpm5-2b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minicpm5-2b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "title": "MiniCPM5-2B vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minicpm5-2b-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minicpm5-2b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "MiniCPM5-2B vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minicpm5-2b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 36, "edge": "inkling-small", "inkling-small": 63, "key": "capability", "minicpm5-2b": 27, "name": "Capability", "weight": 35 }, { "by": 35, "edge": "minicpm5-2b", "inkling-small": 55, "key": "reach", "minicpm5-2b": 90, "name": "Reach", "weight": 25 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "inkling-small", "inkling-small": 70, "key": "risk", "minicpm5-2b": 55, "name": "Risk", "weight": 20 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "inkling-small", "inkling-small": 85, "key": "interface", "minicpm5-2b": 75, "name": "Agent interface", "weight": 10 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "minicpm5-2b", "inkling-small": 82, "key": "upkeep", "minicpm5-2b": 97, "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Inkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against MiniCPM5-2B's 60.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. MiniCPM5-2B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "inkling-small": "A mixture-of-experts generalist with images and audio in, several tool calls a turn and per-request thinking effort. It needs about 205 GB for Thinking Machines' NVFP4 build on recent NVIDIA or AMD datacentre GPUs, and Tinker or DeepInfra host it. The main risks are a use policy that binds on download and can change, and no outside safety results.", "minicpm5-2b": "A tiny dense cousin for local tool calling and long context, with published training data and an active publisher. OpenBMB's own 4-bit builds need about 2 GB, so it runs on a laptop or phone in vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama or Transformers. The main risks are always-on thinking, no safety results and use conditions beyond Apache 2.0." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-minicpm5-2b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-minicpm5-2b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-minicpm5-2b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-minicpm5-2b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Inkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against MiniCPM5-2B's 60.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. MiniCPM5-2B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Inkling-Small: grade B, 66.5/100, rank #14 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/inkling-small.json\n- MiniCPM5-2B: grade C, 60.2/100, rank #56 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/minicpm5-2b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/minicpm5-2b.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 2870 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Inkling-Small (B)\n\nGood for: Teams with 256 GB or more of datacentre GPU memory who want an open multimodal agent model with audio input and adjustable thinking.\n\nAhead on:\n- Capability, 63 against 27\n- Risk, 70 against 55\n- Agent interface, 85 against 75\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 3.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: The smallest build Thinking Machines publishes needs about 205 GB\n\n### MiniCPM5-2B (C)\n\nGood for: On-device and laptop agents that want a 2 GB tool-calling helper with long context and open training data\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 90 against 55\n- Documentation and upkeep, 97 against 82\n\nWatch for: OpenBMB documents only a Think mode for the 2B, so every answer starts with reasoning\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Inkling-Small | MiniCPM5-2B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 63 | 27 | Inkling-Small +36 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 55 | 90 | MiniCPM5-2B +35 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 70 | 55 | Inkling-Small +15 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 85 | 75 | Inkling-Small +10 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 82 | 97 | MiniCPM5-2B +15 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **66.5 · B** | **60.2 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Inkling-Small | MiniCPM5-2B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Thinking Machines Lab | OpenBMB |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-07-31 | 2026-09-29 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Inkling-Small.** A mixture-of-experts generalist with images and audio in, several tool calls a turn and per-request thinking effort. It needs about 205 GB for Thinking Machines' NVFP4 build on recent NVIDIA or AMD datacentre GPUs, and Tinker or DeepInfra host it. The main risks are a use policy that binds on download and can change, and no outside safety results.\n\n**MiniCPM5-2B.** A tiny dense cousin for local tool calling and long context, with published training data and an active publisher. OpenBMB's own 4-bit builds need about 2 GB, so it runs on a laptop or phone in vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, Ollama or Transformers. The main risks are always-on thinking, no safety results and use conditions beyond Apache 2.0.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Inkling-Small\n\n1. Start the NVFP4 build with SGLang's recipe, `sglang serve --trust-remote-code --model-path thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small-NVFP4 --tp 8 --enable-multimodal --reasoning-parser inkling --tool-call-parser inkling`, on Blackwell for W4A4\n2. Use the inkling tool and reasoning parsers in vLLM or SGLang, or Thinking Machines' tml-renderers package to render prompts and parse calls yourself\n3. Pass `reasoning_effort` as none, minimal, low, medium, high (the default) or max, or a number from 0 to 0.99. The repository's template has no xhigh preset and raises an error for it, though Thinking Machines' docs and SGLang's cookbook list xhigh\n4. Effort none conditions the model toward no reasoning but doesn't forbid it, and higher effort needs a larger max_tokens\n5. Tool call arguments must reach the template as an object, not a JSON string, or it raises an error\n6. Images should be 40 to 4096 px a side and audio 16 kHz WAV under two minutes, per the card\n7. Use guided decoding or validate JSON yourself, since structured output isn't documented\n8. Read the Model Acceptable Use Policy before deploying, it binds on download and bars some uses that are legal\n\n### MiniCPM5-2B\n\n1. Smallest start is `ollama run openbmb/minicpm5-2b` (1.6 GB, q4_k_m)\n2. On vLLM 0.29.0 or later run `vllm serve openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B --max-model-len 131072 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser minicpm5`, or tool calls come back as XML text\n3. On SGLang 0.5.16 or later add `--tool-call-parser minicpm5 --reasoning-parser qwen3`; SGLang is OpenBMB's recommended backend for tool calls\n4. Tool calls are XML, `\u003cfunction name=...\u003e\u003cparam name=...\u003e`, not Hermes JSON\n5. Sample with temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95 and min_p 0.0; llama.cpp's default min_p 0.05 can loop, and repetition_penalty 1.05 helps if it does\n6. Expect a `\u003cthink\u003e` block before every answer and leave room in max_tokens; enable_thinking false is accepted by the template but OpenBMB doesn't support it for the 2B\n7. Validate JSON yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented\n8. Use the main repository's template; the GGUF, MLX and GPTQ copies predate the 29 September fix\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Inkling-Small or MiniCPM5-2B?\n\nInkling-Small scores 66.5 (B) on agent readiness against MiniCPM5-2B's 60.2 (C), and leads in 3 of 5 scored categories. MiniCPM5-2B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-minicpm5-2b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inkling-small-vs-minicpm5-2b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"inkling-small\", \"b\": \"minicpm5-2b\"}`. 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