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Inkling 2 Small vs North Micro Vision Instruct

Inkling 2 Small leads the LLM Stats Score 47.2 to -5.8.

Thinking Machines Lab · Cohere · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Inkling 2 Small leads the overall LLM Stats Score 47.2 to -5.8, ranking #40 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Inkling 2 Small

  • overall performance matters — it scores 47.2 and ranks #40 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Nov 2026

Choose North Micro Vision Instruct

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Inkling 2 Small
Thinking Machines Lab
North Micro Vision Instruct
Cohere
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
47.2
#40
-5.8
#403
Reasoning
48.0
#26
-8.3
#402
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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—
Input price
$0.30 / M
— / M
Output price
$1.00 / M
— / M
Context window
256,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

2 shared
Index
Inkling 2 Small
North Micro Vision Instruct
Vision
29.2#45
-5.3#235
Multimodal
28.9#42
-3.6#191
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

11 reported for Inkling 2 Small · 19 for North Micro Vision Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Inkling 2 Small and North Micro Vision Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

591.6B diff

Inkling 2 Small has 591.6B more parameters than North Micro Vision Instruct, making it 24650.0% larger.

Thinking Machines Lab
Inkling 2 Small
594.0Bparameters
Cohere
North Micro Vision Instruct
2.4Bparameters
594.0B
Inkling 2 Small
2.4B
North Micro Vision Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Inkling 2 Small specifies input context (256,000 tokens).

Thinking Machines Lab
Inkling 2 Small
Input256,000 tokens
Output- tokens
Cohere
North Micro Vision Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Sun Nov 15 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Inkling 2 Small and North Micro Vision Instruct support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Inkling 2 Small

Text
Images
Audio
Video

North Micro Vision Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Inkling 2 Small is licensed under a proprietary license, while North Micro Vision Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Inkling 2 Small

Proprietary

Closed source

North Micro Vision Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Inkling 2 Small was released on 2026-11-05, while North Micro Vision Instruct was released on 2026-08-12.

Inkling 2 Small is 3 months newer than North Micro Vision Instruct.

Inkling 2 Small

Nov 5, 2026

1 weeks ago

2mo newer
North Micro Vision Instruct

Aug 12, 2026

3 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Inkling 2 Small and North Micro Vision Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Inkling 2 Small
✓ Preferred
North Micro Vision Instruct
Open in Playground

FAQ

Common questions about Inkling 2 Small vs North Micro Vision Instruct.

Which is better, Inkling 2 Small or North Micro Vision Instruct?

Inkling 2 Small leads the LLM Stats Score 47.2 to -5.8. Inkling 2 Small is made by Thinking Machines Lab and North Micro Vision Instruct is made by Cohere. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Inkling 2 Small compare to North Micro Vision Instruct in benchmarks?

Inkling 2 Small scores GPQA: 93.0%, BrowseComp: 90.2%, CharXiv-R: 85.6%, MCP Atlas: 85.0%, SWE-Bench Verified: 82.2%. North Micro Vision Instruct scores DocVQA: 92.1%, ChartQA: 80.8%, OCRBench: 79.2%, AI2D: 77.5%, IFEval: 74.9%.

What are the context window sizes for Inkling 2 Small and North Micro Vision Instruct?

Inkling 2 Small supports 256K tokens and North Micro Vision Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Inkling 2 Small and North Micro Vision Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (47.2 vs -5.8), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Inkling 2 Small and North Micro Vision Instruct?

Inkling 2 Small is developed by Thinking Machines Lab and North Micro Vision Instruct is developed by Cohere.

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