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Inkling Small
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of the Inkling family and is suited for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, instruction following, and multilingual conversation.
Specifications
| Lab | Thinking Machines |
|---|---|
| Context window | 524.3K tokens |
| Input price | $0.45/1M |
| Output price | $1.20/1M |
| Release | Jul 2026 |
Strengths
- Supports text and image input with text output
- 512K-token context window for long documents
- Low input pricing for cost-sensitive production workloads
- Tool-use support for agentic workflows
Weaknesses
- Newer listing with limited independent benchmark coverage
- Multimodal performance may vary by provider endpoint
Best for
- Agentic workflows and tool-using applications
- Multimodal document and screenshot analysis
- Long-context document and codebase processing
In Depth: Inkling Small
Summary
Inkling Small is an AI model from Thinking Machines.
Released in Jul 2026. It takes text, image, and audio input and produces text output, with a context window of 524.3K tokens. Input pricing is $0.45 per 1M tokens and output is $1.20 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.