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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

THINKINGMACHINES Developer Architecture Profile

OpenRouter ↗HuggingFace ↗
Intelligence (ELO)1427Chatbot Arena Verified
Max Context524,288Tokens
API Cost / 1M$1.70Blended Prompt + Completion

Model Capabilities

  • Audio Gen
  • Coding & Logic
  • Fictional
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...

Granular Pricing Matrix

Input Tokens (Prompt)$0.50 / 1M
Output Tokens (Completion)$1.20 / 1M

Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 8/1/2026

Evaluate Competitors

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