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Inkling alternatives for the EU.

Inkling by Thinking Machines Lab has no verified EU status yet. Here are 8 similar tools in the same space, 8 of them verified available.

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At a glance

Inkling compared with 8 alternatives: EU status, pricing, licence and release date
ToolEU statusPricingOpen sourceReleasedMentions
Inkling (this)UnverifiedPricing unknownUnknownn/a1
Inkling SmallAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo27 Jul 20262
Inkling 2 SmallAvailable in EUPricing unknownUnknownn/a2
Qwen 3.5 122BAvailable in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a1
GPT-OSSAvailable in EUOpen sourceYes5 Aug 20251
Spark-X2.6-1.7BAvailable in EUOpen sourceUnknown19 Oct 20261
ZGCM-1Available in EUOpen sourceYesSept 20261
MiniCPM5 1BAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo21 May 20261
Muse GlimmerAvailable in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a3

The alternatives, closest match first

  1. 01IS

    Inkling Small

    Model · Thinking Machines

    Open-weights multimodal MoE model (276B total, 12B active) from Thinking Machines; text, image and audio in, text out.

    By Thinking Machines. 2 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source27 Jul 202613:37
  2. 02I2

    Inkling 2 Small

    Model · Thinking Machines

    Open-weights multimodal MoE model (594B total, 17B active) from Thinking Machines, available via Tinker.

    By Thinking Machines. 2 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EU11:43
  3. 03Q3

    Qwen 3.5 122B

    Model · Alibaba

    Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 large open-weights language model (~122B parameters) from the Qwen family.

    By Alibaba. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source10:41
  4. 04GP

    GPT-OSS

    Model · OpenAI

    OpenAI's open-weight reasoning models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, released under Apache 2.0.

    By OpenAI. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen sourceOpen source5 Aug 202518:00
  5. 05SP

    Spark-X2.6-1.7B

    Model

    Compact 1.7B open-weights text LLM for on-device use, with adjustable thinking levels and English/Chinese support.

    Available in EUOpen source19 Oct 202650:42
  6. 06ZG

    ZGCM-1

    Model

    Open 7.39B dense model for math reasoning and agentic search, with a 256K context and the full training pipeline released.

    Available in EUOpen sourceOpen sourceSept 202637:57
  7. 07M1

    MiniCPM5 1B

    Model · OpenBMB

    1B-parameter dense open-weights language model from OpenBMB for on-device use, with hybrid thinking and 128K context.

    By OpenBMB. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source21 May 202634:24
  8. 08MG

    Muse Glimmer

    Model · Meta

    Meta's open-weights 30B dense model for local agents, tuned for tool use and long tasks, Apache 2.0 licensed.

    By Meta. 3 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source44:00

Frequently asked

Is Inkling available in the EU?
Inkling has no verified EU status yet. No explicit evidence found of EU restrictions; the Terms include a GDPR DPA with EU SCCs, but they say nothing about Inkling's availability and the license is unconfirmed.
What is the best alternative to Inkling in the EU?
Inkling Small by Thinking Machines is the closest match we track that EU users can use (available in the eu). Open-weights multimodal MoE model (276B total, 12B active) from Thinking Machines; text, image and audio in, text out.
How are these alternatives chosen?
We compare tools by meaning (embeddings of their descriptions), keep those in the same category, and show only tools whose EU status is available or limited. Closest match first.

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