Thinking Machines
Inkling Small
Multimodal MoE reasoning model (276B total, 12B active) for text, image, and audio
Model facts
- Context window
- 524K tokens
- Maximum output
- 262K tokens
- Cheapest paid input
- $0.45 per 1M tokens
- Cheapest paid output
- $1.2 per 1M tokens
- Open weights
- yes
- Providers
- 15
Capabilities and modalities
reasoning, tool calling, structured output, attachments, temperature control, open weights, text, image, audio, pdf.
Local hardware estimate
At 4K context: Q4_K_M 163.8 GiB, Q8_0 287.6 GiB, F16 519.8 GiB working memory.
- Parameters
- 266.0 billion
- Architecture
- inkling
- Model license
- apache-2.0
Planning estimate adapted from the MIT-licensed whichllm estimator using metadata from Hugging Face; not a vendor minimum requirement.
Artificial Analysis benchmarks
Compare this model on the full LLM benchmark leaderboard.
| Configuration | AAI | Coding | Math | Output tokens/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| default | 41.2 | 52.9 | not measured | 76.9 |
Observed price history
- 2026-08-24: $0.45 input / $1.2 output per 1M tokens
API providers
- Kilo Gateway (free) — model id thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free; free input / free output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- OpenRouter (free) — model id thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free; free input / free output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- Deep Infra — model id thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small; $0.45 input / $1.2 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- Eden AI — model id deepinfra/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small; $0.45 input / $1.2 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- Kilo Gateway — model id thinkingmachines/inkling-small; $0.45 input / $1.2 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- OpenRouter — model id thinkingmachines/inkling-small; $0.45 input / $1.2 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- Arcee — model id thinkingmachines/inkling-small; $0.5 input / $1.2 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- Baseten — model id thinkingmachines/inkling-small; $0.5 input / $1.2 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- Eden AI — model id together_ai/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small; $0.5 input / $1.2 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- Hugging Face — model id thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small; $0.5 input / $1.2 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- NanoGPT — model id thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small; $0.5 input / $1.2 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- OpenRouter (batch) — model id thinkingmachines/inkling-small:batch; $0.5 input / $1.2 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- Vercel AI Gateway — model id thinkingmachines/inkling-small; $0.5 input / $1.2 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- LLMTR — model id thinkingmachines/inkling-small; $0.58 input / $1.44 output per 1M tokens; provider documentation
- Arena — model id inkling-small; not published input / not published output per 1M tokens; provider documentation