Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

Name: Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Author: OpenRouter

Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total.

Context

524K

Max output

262K

Input price

$0.45/1M tokens

Output price

$1.2/1M tokens

Capabilities

Show unsupported (4)

Reasoning & Interaction

Reasoning

Tool Calling

Output Control

Structured Output

JSON Mode

Details

Model IDthinkingmachines/inkling-small

ProviderOpenRouter

Creatorthinkingmachines

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Input modalitiestext, image, audio

Output modalitiestext

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Parameters—

Architecture—

Context window524K tokens

Max input—

Max output262K tokens

Reasoning tokens—

Knowledge cutoff—

Release date2026-07-30

Sourceofficial

Tools

Function Callingfunction_calling

Call external functions and APIs

Pricing

Input

$0.45

Output

$1.2

Cache write

—

Cache read

$0.1

Batch in

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Batch out

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API

GET/v1/models/openrouter/thinkingmachines/inkling-small