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Inkling Small
thinkingmachines·thinkingmachines/inkling-small·BETA·Open weights·ling series·Video gen·NEW
Multimodal MoE reasoning model (276B total, 12B active) for text, image, and audio
At a glance
Reference price$0.58 / $1.44 per 1M
Cache read — · LLMTR
Lowest paid$0.45 / $1.20
Deep Infra Cloud · 1.3× spread
Context262,144
⚠ Providers report 262,144–1,048,576; the table below is authoritative
Output limit262,144
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImageAudioPDF
Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-07-30 / 2026-07-30
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1
Intelligence41.2
Value65
Coding52.9
Agentic31.9
Output speed67 tok/s
TTFT1.73 s
Cost per task$0.0735
Value formulaIQ 41.2 ÷ min blended $0.637 = 65
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 11 providers11 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Infra thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small | Cloud | $0.45 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 1,048,576 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.45 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| Eden AI deepinfra/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small | Gateway | $0.45 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 1,048,576 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.45 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| NanoGPT thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small | Gateway | $0.50 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Hugging Face thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small | Cloud | $0.50 | $1.20 | — | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 1,048,576 | |
| Arcee | Gateway | $0.50 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | beta |
| Baseten | Cloud | $0.50 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $0.50 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 1,000,000 | |
| Eden AI together_ai/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small | Gateway | $0.50 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 1,048,576 | |
| LLMTR | Gateway | $0.58 | $1.44 | — | — | 262,144 | 262,144 |
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
1Deep Infra$108.00
2OpenRouter$108.00
3Eden AI$108.00
4Kilo Gateway$108.00
5NanoGPT$112.00
6Arcee$112.00
The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = noneeffort = minimaleffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = maxeffort = xhigh
3 / 11 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended