Design Arena ranks Inkling 2 Small 4th overall and first among open-weights models

Design Arena says Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small takes 4th place overall on its leaderboard and 1st among open-weights models, with an Elo of 1376. It also says the model places 1st in two subcategories, General Purpose and Landing Page prompts.

Design Arena puts the model's price at $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.00 per 1M output tokens, which it calls 15× cheaper on output than Moonshot's Kimi K3. It notes that the model's weights have not been released yet. These are the benchmark site's own figures; the post had 160 likes by November 5.