LocalFit

Inkling-Small

thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small

Released2026-07-30Size276B · 12B activeArchitecturesliding-window attnLicenseapache-2.0AA rank#21 of 75

Files and memory at 8K context

QuantFileFiles+ KV + runtimeSmallest fitSource
Q8_0
unsloth/Inkling-Small-GGUF
261 GiB7262 GiB+over 192 GB GPUHF files
BF16
unsloth/Inkling-Small-GGUF
491 GiB11492 GiB+over 192 GB GPUHF files
MLX 4-bit mixed precision
mlx-community/Inkling-Small-mlx-4bit
143 GiB30144 GiB+256 GB MacHF files

No verified file: Q4_K_M, Q5_K_M, FP16, MLX 8-bit. Sizes are exact file bytes (text weights; projectors listed separately). “+” = recurrent state or other terms unknown. Smallest fit adds 0.5 GiB spare; Macs use 75% of memory.

Quality

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

25.7

Variant: Inkling Small · observed 2026-10-17 · source

Rank #21 of 75 researched 2026 models.

Arena text rating

1,413

95% CI 1408–1417 · 32,304 votes · published 2026-10-15 · dataset

Exact listed model name; hosted reasoning/quantization may differ from local checkpoint.

Scores describe the evaluated hosted variant, not each quantized file. AA and Arena are never averaged.

Reported speeds 2

HardwareQuantBackendPrompt t/sGen t/sDateSource
Apple M3 Ultra (60-core GPU), 256 GB unified memory4bit (Inkling-Small-oQ4e-mtp)MLX (oMLX server)57544.32026-08-27omlx.ai
Apple M3 Ultra (60-core GPU), 256 GB unified memory4bit (Inkling-Small-oQ4e-mtp)MLX (oMLX server)54439.52026-08-27omlx.ai

Reported by the linked sources, not reproduced by LocalFit. All rows in the speed database