Inkling Small
by Thinking MachinesChat
Multimodal MoE reasoning model (276B total, 12B active) for text, image, and audio
- Context
- 1.05M tokens
- Max output
- 262,144 tokens
- Parameters
- 266B total, 12B active
- Released
- 2026-07-30
- Weights
- Open
- Licence
- apache-2.0
thinkingmachines/inkling-small · also seen as thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free, thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small:thinking, deepinfra/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small, thinkingmachines/inkling-small-20260730
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-07-30
- Weights
- Opennot gated
- License
- apache-2.0
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 1,048,576 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 262,144
- Providers
- 5 + 8 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- 150.2 ± 2.4 against price
- Direct price range
- $0.450–$0.798 in · $1.20–$1.98 out per 1M tokens · across all 5 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-07-30
- Knowledge cutoff
- Weights link
- Hugging Face · thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small
- Parameters
- 266B total, 12B active
- Developer country
- United States of America
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
Loading endpoints…
Price history
Atom feedNo change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.45 in / $1.20 out per 1M tokens at Deep Infra on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
Loading endpoints…
Similarly priced models
Blended rate per 1M tokens, each at its own cheapest provider (10M input : 2M output mix).
| Model | Blended/1M | In/1M | Out/1M | Context | vs Inkling Small |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Devstral 2Mistral AI | $0.567 | $0.40 | $1.40 | 262K | −1% cheaper |
| mistral-small-4-119b-2603Mistral AI | $0.567 | $0.40 | $1.40 | 262K | −1% cheaper |
| Seed 2.1 TurboByteDance Seed | $0.59 | $0.354 | $1.77 | 262K | +3% |
| Skyfall 36B V2TheDrummer | $0.592 | $0.55 | $0.80 | 32.8K | +3% |
| ERNIE 4.5 VL 424B A47BBaidu | $0.558 | $0.42 | $1.25 | 123K | −3% cheaper |
| Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle | $0.60 | $0.27 | $2.25 | 1.05M | +4% |
| GPT-4.1 miniOpenAI | $0.60 | $0.40 | $1.60 | 1.05M | +4% |
| Llama 3 70B InstructMeta | $0.548 | $0.51 | $0.74 | 8.2K | −5% cheaper |
More from Thinking Machines
Newest Thinking Machines models in the catalogue. All Thinking Machines models
| Model | Released | Context | Listed price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inkling | 2026-07-15 | 65.5K | from $0.95 |