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Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small
Inkling 2 Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 17B active parameters out of 594B total. It is the first model in the second...
Specifications
| Provider | Thinking Machines |
| Model ID | thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens (1,048,576) |
| Modalities | text + image → text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
| Router sources | OpenRouter, TrustedRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, Cloudflare |
| Released | 2026-11-09 |
| Tracked since | 2026-11-14 |
| Popularity | Not in the ranked set |
| Reasoning | Mandatory |
Pricing (per million tokens)
| Variant | Source | API ID | Input | Output | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| standard | OpenRouter | thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small | $0.3 | $1.00 | 1.0M |
| free | OpenRouter | thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small:free | Free | Free | 1.0M |
| standard | TrustedRouter | thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small | $0.317 | $1.06 | 1.0M |
| standard | Vercel AI Gateway | thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small | $0.3 | $1.00 | 1.0M |
| standard | Cloudflare | thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small | $0.3 | $1.00 | — |
Recorded price history
| Date | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-14 | $0.3 | $1.00 | — |
| 2026-11-14 | $0.3 | $1.00 | 1.0M |
| 2026-11-14 | $0.317 | $1.06 | 1.0M |
| 2026-11-14 | $0.3 | $1.00 | 1.0M |
Capabilities
Vision (image input)Agentic tool useStructured outputsReasoning (always on)1M+ context windowControllable reasoningNo content storage (attested)Zero data retentionNo training on inputs (attested)
Trust flags come from TrustedRouter's per-provider attestations.
Supported parameters
frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logit_bias, logprobs, max_tokens, min_p, presence_penalty, reasoning, reasoning_effort, repetition_penalty, response_format, seed, stop, structured_outputs, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_logprobs, top_p