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Inkling 2 Small alternatives for the EU.

Inkling 2 Small by Thinking Machines is available in the EU. Here are 8 similar tools in the same space, 8 of them verified available.

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At a glance

Inkling 2 Small compared with 8 alternatives: EU status, pricing, licence and release date
ToolEU statusPricingOpen sourceReleasedMentions
Inkling 2 Small (this)Available in EUPricing unknownUnknownn/a2
Inkling SmallAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo27 Jul 20262
LongCat 2.5Available in EUOpen sourceNo4 Nov 20262
MiniMax M3Available in EUOpen sourceNo2 Jun 20264
Ornith 1.5Available in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a1
Ling-3.1-flashAvailable in EUOpen sourceNo13 Oct 20261
Spark-X2.6-1.7BAvailable in EUOpen sourceUnknown19 Oct 20261
IQuest Q1Available in EUOpen sourceUnknown28 Sept 20261
LongCat 2.0Available in EUOpen sourceUnknownn/a1

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. 02L2

    LongCat 2.5

    Model · Meituan

    Meituan's open-weights 1.6T-parameter multimodal MoE model (48B active) for agentic coding and visual tasks.

    By Meituan. 2 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source4 Nov 20269:58
  3. 03MM

    MiniMax M3

    Model · MiniMax

    Open-weights native multimodal MoE model from MiniMax, ~428B parameters (~23B active) with 1M-token context.

    By MiniMax. 4 mentions in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source2 Jun 202621:38
  4. 04O1

    Ornith 1.5

    Model

    Open model family (9B dense, 35B MoE, 397B MoE) trained with a self-improvement loop for reasoning, coding and agentic tasks.

    Available in EUOpen source7:27
  5. 05LI

    Ling-3.1-flash

    Model · inclusionAI

    Open-weights 560B hybrid-linear MoE reasoning model (25B active, 1M context) from inclusionAI, MIT licensed.

    By inclusionAI. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source13 Oct 202637:10
  6. 06SP

    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
  7. 07IQ

    IQuest Q1

    Model · IQuest Lab

    320B-parameter MoE model (15B active) from IQuest for agentic coding and tool use, with 512K context.

    By IQuest Lab. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source28 Sept 202637:48
  8. 08L2

    LongCat 2.0

    Model · Meituan

    Meituan's open-weights 1.6T-parameter mixture-of-experts LLM (48B active), aimed at agentic coding and reasoning tasks.

    By Meituan. 1 mention in creator videos.

    Available in EUOpen source2:33

Frequently asked

Is Inkling 2 Small available in the EU?
Inkling 2 Small is available in the EU. Thinking Machines' terms include a GDPR DPA with EU SCCs, and weights are planned under Apache 2.0 with no EU exclusion; no explicit EU data residency found, and the weights were not yet confirmed as released.
What is the best alternative to Inkling 2 Small 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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