Thinking Machines

Inkling Small

thinkingmachines/inkling-small

Specification

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Inkling Small

reasoning open weights tools

Thinking Machines thinkingmachines/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...

Input $/1M: $0.45
Output $/1M: $1.20
Context: 1.0M
Max output: 262K
Released: Jul 30, 2026
Modalities: textimageaudio

Intelligence index-

Coding index53

Agentic index25

Cached input reads $0.10 per 1M · weights on Hugging Face as thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small

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targets.yamlyaml

# targets.yaml - declare a target that runs Inkling Small
targets:
  - id: inkling-small
    kind: llm
    name: Inkling Small
    metadata:
      model: thinkingmachines/inkling-small          # links the target to this catalogue entry
    capabilities:
      domains: [general]
      supports_tools: true
      context_window: 1048576
    cost:
      usd_per_1k_tokens: 0.000825

Price among Thinking Machines models

Input list price per million tokens; Inkling Small is the 3rd cheapest of 6 listed.

1
Inkling Small (free)
free
2
Inkling (free)
free
3
Inkling Small
$0.45
4
Inkling Small (batch)
$0.50
5
Inkling
$1.00
6
Inkling (batch)
$1.00

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