Inkling Small
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total.
Model by Thinking Machines
Install
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{
"model": "thinkingmachines/inkling-small",
"baseURL": "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1"
}OpenAI-compatible API: point any OpenAI SDK at the base URL and use this model id.
Settings it needs
OPENROUTER_API_KEYrequiredsecret
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Use cases: model-inference
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Price and limits
| Variant | Input $/M tokens | Output $/M tokens | Cached input $/M |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $0.45 | $1.2 | $0.1 |
Free (rate-limited) thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free | Free | Free | — |
Price as of Oct 26, 2026 from OpenRouter. Prices change often; check before you rely on one.
- Provider
- Thinking Machines
- Model id
thinkingmachines/inkling-small- Context window
- 524,288 tokens (524K)
- Max output
- 262,144 tokens
- Input
- text, image, audio
- Output
- text
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured outputs
- Not listed
- Reasoning
- Yes
- Weights
- Open: thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small
- Released
- Jul 30, 2026
Details
- Auth
- API key
- License
- License unknown
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 26, 2026
- Source
- OpenRouter
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Inkling Small: price, context window, tool use. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/models/thinkingmachines-inkling-small (last updated 2026-10-26)