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Inkling 2 Small
Inkling 2 Small is a multimodal mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 17B active parameters out of 594B total.
Specifications
| Lab | Thinking Machines |
|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Input price | $0.00/1M |
| Output price | $0.00/1M |
| Release | Nov 2026 |
Strengths
- MoE reasoning model (17B active / 594B total)
- 1M-token context window
- Free tier available via OpenRouter
- Multimodal text+image input
Weaknesses
- Only free-tier listing so far; paid pricing unknown
- Limited independent benchmark history as a new release
Best for
- Low-cost reasoning experiments
- Long-context prototyping
- Agentic side tasks on a budget
In Depth: Inkling 2 Small
Summary
Inkling 2 Small is an AI model from Thinking Machines.
Released in Nov 2026. It takes text and image input and produces text output, with a context window of 1M tokens. Input pricing is $0.00 per 1M tokens and output is $0.00 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.