Inkling-Small vs North Micro Vision Instruct: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Inkling-Small is developed by Thinking Machines Lab, while North Micro Vision Instruct comes from Cohere. Inkling-Small was released in July 2026, and North Micro Vision Instruct followed a month later in August 2026. Inkling-Small is the larger model at roughly 276 billion parameters, against 2 billion for North Micro Vision Instruct.
We have 24 benchmark results for Inkling-Small and 19 benchmark results for North Micro Vision Instruct, 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 North Micro Vision Instruct, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Inkling-Small | North Micro Vision Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Thinking Machines Lab | Cohere |
| Release Date | July 30, 2026 | August 12, 2026 |
| Parameters | 276B | 2B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 256K | — |
| Context (output) | 256K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.30 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $1.20 | — |
| Average Score | 60.3% | 61.1% |
Verdict
Both models show equal results — the choice depends on your specific use case.
Both models show comparable average scores: Inkling-Small — 0.6, North Micro Vision Instruct — 0.6.
Both models were released around the same time: 7/30/2026 and 8/12/2026.
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