Thinking Machines

Inkling Small (free)

thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free

Specification

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Inkling Small (free)

reasoning open weights toolsfree

Thinking Machines thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free

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

Intelligence index-

Coding index53

Agentic index25

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targets.yamlyaml

# targets.yaml - declare a target that runs Inkling Small (free)
targets:
  - id: inkling-small-free
    kind: llm
    name: Inkling Small (free)
    metadata:
      model: thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free          # links the target to this catalogue entry
    capabilities:
      domains: [general]
      supports_tools: true
      context_window: 1048576
    cost:
      usd_per_1k_tokens: 0.000000

Price among Thinking Machines models

Input list price per million tokens; Inkling Small (free) is the 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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