Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

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...

Modalities

In / out price

$0.45 / $1.2 per 1M

Context

524K

Released

Jul 30, 2026

Why use Inkling Small

Understands images
Understands audio
Step-by-step reasoning mode
Tool and function calling (agent-ready)
Very long context: whole books or codebases in one prompt

Pricing

Input	$0.45 / 1M tokens
Output	$1.2 / 1M tokens
Cached input (read)	$0.1 / 1M tokens

List prices via OpenRouter, checked daily. Real cost depends on the provider and on reasoning tokens.

How it ranks

Intelligence index25.7

Coding index52.9

Agentic index23.5

Source: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) via OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings).

Cost calculator

Pick a task, set how often you run it, and compare what it costs on each model.

TaskInput tokens≈ 602 wordsOutput tokens≈ 1,504 wordsRuns per month

Input served from cache: 0%Repeated prompts (same instructions or document) are billed at the cheaper cache-read price where the model supports it.

Model	Per run	Per month	Per 1,000 runs
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	$0.0028	$2.76	$2.76

Estimates from list prices via OpenRouter; real bills vary by provider and reasoning tokens.

Will it fit? Context window simulator

Each square is about one page (500 words). Colored squares are your content; grey squares are free space in the model's context window.

Your content

Novel (90,000 words)

Total: about 120,000 tokens (≈ 90,226 words). Token counts are estimates.

Models

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