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Thinking Machines: 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. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of...
Specifications
| Provider | Thinking Machines |
| Model ID | thinkingmachines/inkling-small |
| Context window | 524K tokens (524,288) |
| Modalities | text + image + audio → text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
| Router sources | OpenRouter, TrustedRouter, Vercel AI Gateway |
| Released | 2026-07-30 |
| Tracked since | 2026-11-14 |
| Popularity | Not in the ranked set |
| Reasoning | On by default |
Pricing (per million tokens)
| Variant | Source | API ID | Input | Output | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| standard | OpenRouter | thinkingmachines/inkling-small | $0.45 | $1.20 | 524K |
| batch | OpenRouter | thinkingmachines/inkling-small:batch | $0.36 | $0.96 | 524K |
| standard | TrustedRouter | thinkingmachines/inkling-small | $0.317 | $1.27 | 524K |
| standard | Vercel AI Gateway | thinkingmachines/inkling-small | $0.45 | $1.20 | 1M |
Recorded price history
| Date | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-14 | $0.45 | $1.20 | 1M |
| 2026-11-14 | $0.317 | $1.27 | 524K |
| 2026-11-14 | $0.45 | $1.20 | 524K |
Capabilities
Vision (image input)Audio inputAgentic tool useReasoning mode256K+ context windowControllable reasoningNo content storage (attested)
Trust flags come from TrustedRouter's per-provider attestations.
Supported parameters
frequency_penalty, include_reasoning, logit_bias, max_tokens, min_p, presence_penalty, reasoning, reasoning_effort, repetition_penalty, seed, stop, temperature, tool_choice, tools, top_k, top_p