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Inkling-Small is an efficient Mixture-of-Experts transformer model built to provide performance comparable to Inkling while using a much smaller active parameter footprint. The model has 276 billion total parameters and 12 billion active parameters, making it designed for strong capability with more efficient compute usage. Inkling-Small was trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems and supports native reasoning across text, images, and audio. It offers context windows of up to one million tokens, making it suitable for long documents, large codebases, multimodal context, and extended agent workflows. Users can set reasoning effort from minimal to extra high to control the balance between speed, cost, compute, and task complexity. The model benefits from improved pre-training data, post-training with on-policy distillation from Inkling, and extended agentic coding reinforcement learning. These improvements helped Inkling-Small surpass its larger counterpart on reasoning and coding benchmarks. Its encoder-free multimodal architecture processes audio as dMel spectrograms and images as 40-by-40-pixel patches alongside text tokens. By combining efficient MoE scaling, long-context reasoning, multimodal input, coding strength, and adjustable thinking effort, Inkling-Small is built for practical high-performance AI deployment.

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Mistral Small 4 is a next-generation open-source AI model created by Mistral AI to deliver powerful reasoning, coding, and multimodal capabilities within a single unified architecture. The model merges features from several specialized systems, including Magistral for advanced reasoning, Pixtral for multimodal processing, and Devstral for agentic software development tasks. It supports both text and image inputs, enabling applications such as conversational AI, document analysis, and visual data interpretation. The model is built using a mixture-of-experts design with 128 experts, allowing efficient scaling while maintaining strong performance across diverse tasks. Users can adjust the model’s reasoning behavior through a configurable parameter that toggles between lightweight responses and deeper analytical processing. Mistral Small 4 also provides a large context window that enables it to handle long conversations, detailed documents, and complex reasoning chains. Compared with earlier versions, the model offers improved performance, reduced latency, and higher throughput for real-time applications. Developers can integrate it with popular machine learning frameworks such as Transformers, vLLM, and llama.cpp. The model’s open-source Apache 2.0 license allows organizations to fine-tune and customize it for specialized use cases. By combining efficiency, flexibility, and multimodal intelligence, Mistral Small 4 provides a versatile foundation for building advanced AI-powered applications.

API Access

Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API Yes 

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Integrations

Mistral AI No 
Mistral AI Studio No 
Mistral Small No 
Model Context Protocol (MCP) Yes 
OpenClaw No 
Tinker Yes 

Integrations

Mistral AI Yes 
Mistral AI Studio Yes 
Mistral Small Yes 
Model Context Protocol (MCP) No 
OpenClaw Yes 
Tinker No 

Pricing Details

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Pricing Details

Free
Open source
Free Trial No 
Free Version Yes 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based No 
On-Premises Yes 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows Yes 
Mac Yes 
Linux Yes 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support No 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Thinking Machines Lab

Founded

2025

Country

United States

Website

thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-small/

Vendor Details

Company Name

Mistral AI

Founded

2023

Country

France

Website

mistral.ai/

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