Inkling vs North Micro Vision Instruct: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Inkling is developed by Thinking Machines Lab, while North Micro Vision Instruct comes from Cohere. Inkling was released in July 2026, and North Micro Vision Instruct followed a month later in August 2026. Inkling is the larger model at roughly 975 billion parameters, against 2 billion for North Micro Vision Instruct.
We have 16 benchmark results for Inkling 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 is available through an API at $0.95 per million input tokens with a 524K-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 | North Micro Vision Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Thinking Machines Lab | Cohere |
| Release Date | July 21, 2026 | August 12, 2026 |
| Parameters | 975B | 2B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 524K | — |
| Context (output) | 524K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.95 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $4.05 | — |
| Average Score | 61.8% | 61.1% |
Verdict
North Micro Vision Instruct leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Inkling — 0.6, North Micro Vision Instruct — 0.6.
North Micro Vision Instruct is newer: released 8/12/2026 vs 7/21/2026.
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