Inkling Small
Summary
Inkling Small is an open-weight language model from Thinkingmachines, released on 30 Jul 2026. It accepts text, images and audio and generates text, with a 524K-token context window and up to 1M output tokens per response. As of 4 Oct 2026, the lowest listed API price is $0.45 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens (DeepInfra), across 5 providers we track.
Multimodal MoE reasoning model (276B total, 12B active) for text, image, and audio
Last verified 4 Oct 2026. Every figure on this page links to its source.
Specifications
| Developer | Thinkingmachines |
|---|---|
| Release date | 30 Jul 2026 [models.dev] |
| Status | Generally available [models.dev] |
| Weights | Open weights [Hugging Face] |
| License | apache-2.0 [Hugging Face] |
| Parameters | 266B [Hugging Face] |
| Context window | 524K (524,288 tokens) [models.dev] |
| Max output | 1M tokens [models.dev] |
| Input | Text, images and audio [models.dev] |
| Output | Text [models.dev] |
| Reasoning mode | Yes [models.dev] |
| Tool calling | Yes [models.dev] |
| Structured output | Yes [models.dev] |
| Hugging Face | thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small [Hugging Face] |
Inkling Small API pricing by provider
USD per million tokens. Sorted by input price.
| Provider | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small | $0.45 | $1.20 | $0.10 | 524K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| OpenRouter thinkingmachines/inkling-small | $0.45 | $1.20 | $0.10 | 524K | OpenRouter, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Vercel AI Gateway thinkingmachines/inkling-small | $0.45 | $1.20 | $0.10 | 1M | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Baseten thinkingmachines/inkling-small | $0.50 | $1.20 | $0.10 | 1M | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
| Hugging Face Inference Providers thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small | $0.50 | $1.20 | – | 524K | models.dev, 4 Oct 2026 |
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Inkling Small?
Inkling Small has a context window of 524,288 tokens (524K) and can generate up to 1,048,576 tokens in a single response, according to models.dev.
How much does the Inkling Small API cost?
Inkling Small is listed from $0.45 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens (DeepInfra). Prices last verified 4 Oct 2026.
Is Inkling Small open source?
Inkling Small is an open-weight model: its weights are published on Hugging Face as thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small under the apache-2.0 license. Check the license terms before commercial use.
When was Inkling Small released?
Thinkingmachines released Inkling Small on 30 Jul 2026, according to models.dev.
Which providers offer Inkling Small?
We track Inkling Small on 5 providers: DeepInfra, OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway, Baseten, Hugging Face Inference Providers.
Change history
No changes detected since we started tracking this model. We re-check every source daily.
Sources
- https://openrouter.ai/thinkingmachines/inkling-small
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/deepinfra/models/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small.toml
- https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/vercel/models/thinkingmachines/inkling-small.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/baseten/models/thinkingmachines/inkling-small.toml
- https://github.com/sst/models.dev/blob/dev/providers/huggingface/models/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small.toml