Multimodal MoE reasoning model (276B total, 12B active) for text, image, and audio
Inkling Small by thinkingmachines is offered by 10 providers on this page. Its reference price is $0.58 per 1M input tokens and $1.44 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Deep Infra at $0.45 / $1.20 per 1M, about 1.3× below the reference price.
Artificial Analysis rates it 25.7 on the Intelligence Index, with 52.9 for coding and 23.5 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.637 per 1M, that is roughly 40 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 192 tokens per second, with 2.12s to the first token. Running one task of the Artificial Analysis suite costs about $0.0895, which reflects how many tokens its reasoning consumes rather than the unit price alone.
The context window is 262,144 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 262,144 to 1,048,576, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning and tool use. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, Audio, and PDF. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| 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 ⚠ | — | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.45 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.45 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $0.45 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 1,000,000 | |
| NanoGPT thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small | Gateway | $0.50 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Baseten | Cloud | $0.50 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Hugging Face thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small | Cloud | $0.50 | $1.20 | — | — | 524,288 ⚠ | — | |
| Pioneer | Gateway | $0.50 | $1.20 | $0.10 | $0.50 | 1,000,000 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Arcee | First-party | $0.50 | $1.20 | $0.10 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 | beta |
| 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.
Interleaved thinking (reasoning between tool calls) is declared by 3 of 10 providers.
3 / 10 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.