Inkling-Small vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

thinkingmachines · A · Open weights
Params
266.0 B
Context
—
30d
884 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.15
Output / 1M
$0.50
AA index
26.5
proprietary · 262.1K context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Inkling-Small Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Deployment Open weights · also via API API-only (closed weights)
Parameters 266.0 B n/a — API-only
Architecture InklingForConditionalGeneration n/a — API-only
Context length 524,288 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 Proprietary
Commercial use Allowed Per API terms
Languages — n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d 884,226 n/a — API-only
Downloads all time 1.5 M n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS n/a — API-only
Gated No n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-27 n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $0.45 $0.15
API output price / 1M tokens $1.20 $0.50
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.65 $0.65
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.10 $0.02
AA Intelligence Index 25.7 26.5
AA Coding Index 52.9 —
AA Agentic Index 23.5 —
Max output tokens 262,144 235,929
API providers 1 8
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Inkling-Small $1.65
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL $0.65

Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is 2.5× cheaper at list price.

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Inkling-Small · fp16 625.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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