Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free)
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Thinking Machines: Inkling Small | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | thinkingmachines | nvidia |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.45/M | Free |
| Output Price | $1.20/M | Free |
| Context Window | 524,288 | 256,000 |
| Max Output | 262,144 | 65,536 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | - | - |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | ✓ | ✓ |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) costs $0 and Inkling Small costs $0.75, so Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) is free for the same work.
Inkling Small reads up to 524,288 tokens at once, roughly 786 pages of text, against about 384 pages for Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free).
Only Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) offers video input.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Inkling Small scores higher on 14 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others), Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) on 4 (Regex Writing, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).
Inkling Small was released in July 2026 and Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) in April 2026.
Pick Inkling Small if you need long documents or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) if you need lower cost or video input.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Thinking Machines: Inkling Small | NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 125 | 123 |
| Code Review | 128 | 122 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 129 |
| Code Refactoring | 132 | 123 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 130 |
| Unit Test Generation | 116 | 113 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 126 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 120 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 116 | 113 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 121 | 116 |
| ETL Scripting | 124 | 118 |
| JSON Extraction | 119 | 120 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 125 | 126 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 123 | 120 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 123 | 120 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 124 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 119 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →