Inkling vs. Claude Haiku 5.5

Inkling is an open-weights multimodal AI model from Thinking Machines built to support customization, agentic workflows, coding, reasoning, vision, audio, and enterprise AI use cases. The model is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975 billion total parameters, 41 billion active parameters, 256 routed experts per MoE layer, and six routed experts active per token. It supports context windows up to 1 million tokens and was pretrained on 45 trillion tokens across text, images, audio, and video. Inkling is designed as a broad foundation model rather than a narrowly optimized benchmark model, giving it balanced capabilities across reasoning, coding, factuality, instruction following, vision, audio, tool use, and safety. Its controllable thinking effort lets developers adjust how much computation and generated reasoning the model uses, helping teams balance quality, latency, and cost for different production needs. The model can run agentic coding tasks, use tools, create web apps, generate polished multi-page artifacts, reason over long contexts, and work through iterative refinement loops. For multimodal tasks, Inkling can process images, answer questions about visual content, transcribe and reason over audio, follow spoken instructions, and combine visual reasoning with code-based tools such as Python. Thinking Machines trained Inkling for calibration, instruction following, factual reliability, refusal behavior, and safety across multiple modalities, including evaluations for dangerous capabilities and human-AI threat vectors. Inkling is available on Tinker for fine-tuning, with 64K and 256K context options, an Inkling Playground for testing, cookbook recipes, and support for multimodal post-training workflows. Its full weights are available on Hugging Face, and deployment support is available through APIs and infrastructure partners such as TogetherAI, Fireworks, Modal, Databricks, Baseten, SGLang, vLLM, llama.cpp, and transformers.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is an Anthropic AI model built for high-volume and latency-sensitive AI workloads that require a balance of speed, cost, context capacity, and reasoning. Its primary use cases include classification, routing, information extraction, and subagent tasks within larger AI systems. Claude Haiku 5.5 introduces adaptive thinking, which allows the model to decide when reasoning is needed and how much thinking to apply before producing a response. Adaptive thinking is enabled by default, while the effort parameter gives developers a way to trade response quality against latency and cost. Developers can disable thinking at high effort or below, but Anthropic recommends using effort as the primary mechanism for controlling the model's reasoning behavior. The model provides a 1 million token context window, representing a substantial increase from the 200,000-token context window available with Claude Haiku 4.5. It can generate as many as 128,000 output tokens compared with the previous model's 64,000-token maximum, although thinking tokens are included within the configured output allowance. Browser use is available through the Claude API and Google Cloud, enabling developers to incorporate the model into workflows that require interaction with browser-based environments. Claude Haiku 5.5 uses the newer tokenizer found in Claude 4.7 and later models, resulting in approximately 30% more tokens for the same text compared with Claude Haiku 4.5, depending on the content. The model also changes several API behaviors, including replacing manual extended thinking with adaptive thinking, rejecting non-default sampling parameters and assistant-message prefills, and requiring updated computer-use tooling for supported environments.