Thinkingmachines · Model identity
Thinking Machines: 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...
2pricing routes
What published route metadata supports
Audio inputCachingHugging FaceReasoningTool useVision
Input modalities
AudioImageText
Supported API parameters
frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogit_biaslogprobsmax_tokensmin_ppresence_penaltyreasoningreasoning_effortrepetition_penaltyseedstoptemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p
Only source-backed fields are filled
Release dateNot independently verified
Knowledge cutoffNot independently verified
Open weightsNot independently verified
OpenRouter catalog date2026-07-30
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| Endpoint / route | Model ID | Input | Cached | Output | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouterFree | thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free | $0 | — | $0 | 1.05M | OpenRouter API ↗ |
| OpenRouterStandard | thinkingmachines/inkling-small | $0.45 | $0.1 | $1.2 | 1.05M | OpenRouter API ↗ |
Hugging Face references
Presence of a Hugging Face ID is not treated as proof that model weights are open.
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