AI model · Thinking Machines
Inkling Small
Model ID: thinkingmachines/inkling-small
- Input
- $0.45 per 1M tokens
- Output
- $1.20 per 1M tokens
- Context
- 524K tokens at once
- Max output
- 262K tokens per reply
- Released
- 30 Jul 2026 Thinking Machines
What it can do
- YesReasoning
- YesTool calling
- YesImage input
- YesOpen weights
- NoFree to use
Takes text, image, audio; gives text.
How its listing describes it
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of...
Sources
- Thinking Machines: Inkling Small on OpenRouter — read 2 Oct 2026