Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)

Name: Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)
Brand: thinkingmachines
SKU: thinkingmachines/inkling-small-free-2

thinkingmachines·thinkingmachines/inkling-small-free-2·GA·Open weights·ling series·Video gen·NEW

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...

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Reference price$0 / $0 per 1M

Cache read — · Kilo Gateway

Lowest paidNo paid channels

1 more $0 channels

Context262,144

Output limit262,144

Capabilities

✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments

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Released / updated2026-07-30 / 2026-07-30

Quality & performance

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Provider	Tier	Input	Output	Cache read	Cache write	Context	Output limit	Status
Kilo Gateway thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free	Gateway	Free		—	—	262,144	262,144

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Reasoning control

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