Inkling 2 Small goes open-weight, tops DesignArena open leaderboard
keirp1 · x · 2026-11-13
Thinky Machines' Inkling 2 Small is now open-weight and ranks #1 among open-weight models on DesignArena Overall HTML with Elo 1384, up 8 since launch—a 32-point lead over Kimi K3, and the only American model atop the open-weight board. Priced at $0.30/$1.00 per 1M input/output tokens, it is 15× cheaper on output than Kimi K3 and previously took 1st in the General Purpose and Landing Page subcategories.
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