Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber vs Inkling-Small: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is developed by Google, while Inkling-Small comes from Thinking Machines Lab. Inkling-Small was released in July 2026, and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber followed 2 months later in September 2026. Inkling-Small has a published size of about 276 billion parameters; Google has not disclosed the parameter count of Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber.
We have 4 benchmark results for Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and 24 benchmark results for Inkling-Small, but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
Inkling-Small is available through an API at $0.30 per million input tokens with a 256K-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber | Inkling-Small |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Thinking Machines Lab | |
| Release Date | September 2, 2026 | July 30, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 276B |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | — | 256K |
| Context (output) | — | 256K |
| Input Price / 1M | — | $0.30 |
| Output Price / 1M | — | $1.20 |
| Average Score | 74.6% | 60.3% |
Verdict
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber — 0.7, Inkling-Small — 0.6.
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is newer: released 9/2/2026 vs 7/30/2026.
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