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Inkling Small Thinking

thinkingmachines·thinkingmachines/inkling-small-thinking·GA·Open weights·ling series·Video gen·NEW
Multimodal MoE reasoning model (276B total, 12B active) for text, image, and audio

Inkling Small Thinking by thinkingmachines is currently listed from a single provider. Its reference price is $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens.

The context window is 524,288 tokens, with an output limit of 32,768 tokens. It supports reasoning and tool use. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, and Audio. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice.

Specs & pricing

Input / output per 1M tokens
Reference price·NanoGPT
$0.50 / $1.20
Blended $0.675 · Cache read $0.10
Lowest paid·NanoGPTGateway
$0.50 / $1.20
Blended $0.675
Context
524,288
Output limit
32,768
Knowledge cutoff
—
Released / updated
2026-07-30 / 2026-07-30
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
Modalities
TextImageAudio

Available at 1 providers1 with public prices

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
NanoGPT
thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small:thinking
Gateway$0.50$1.20$0.10—524,28832,768

Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.

Your usage cost

1NanoGPT$112.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.

Reasoning control

effort = minimaleffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = max

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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input listOutput listMin blended
$1.20$02026-08-052026-08-132026-08-05 · Input list $0.502026-08-06 · Input list $0.502026-08-07 · Input list $0.502026-08-08 · Input list $0.502026-08-09 · Input list $0.502026-08-10 · Input list $0.502026-08-11 · Input list $0.502026-08-12 · Input list $0.502026-08-13 · Input list $0.502026-08-05 · Output list $1.202026-08-06 · Output list $1.202026-08-07 · Output list $1.202026-08-08 · Output list $1.202026-08-09 · Output list $1.202026-08-10 · Output list $1.202026-08-11 · Output list $1.202026-08-12 · Output list $1.202026-08-13 · Output list $1.202026-08-05 · Min blended $0.6752026-08-06 · Min blended $0.6752026-08-07 · Min blended $0.6752026-08-08 · Min blended $0.6752026-08-09 · Min blended $0.6752026-08-10 · Min blended $0.6752026-08-11 · Min blended $0.6752026-08-12 · Min blended $0.6752026-08-13 · Min blended $0.675
Data partly from models.dev (MIT) · NanoGPT official docs ↗