# Tinker vs Unsloth (slim)

> Unsloth has a score of 51.7 (D) against Tinker's 51.2 (D). Both do finetune sft. The largest gap is payments & pricing, 40 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Unsloth has a score of 51.7 (D) against Tinker's 51.2 (D). Both do finetune sft. The largest gap is payments & pricing, 40 points.

- Tinker: D 51.2, rank #354 of 452 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinker.min.md
- Unsloth: D 51.7, rank #347 of 452 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/unsloth.min.md
- Pick Tinker for security & auth (+20), maintenance & community (+5), transparency & trust (+17). Pick Unsloth for reliability (+8), payments & pricing (+40).

| Category | Tinker | Unsloth |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 35 | 43 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 66 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 53 | 53 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 55 | 35 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 51 | 34 |