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Inkling Small

Thinking Machines Lab · verified October 3, 2026

public paid api free open-weights reasoning vision long-context local

ProviderThinking Machines Lab

Statuspublic

AA Intelligence Index25.7 (official, read October 3, 2026)

Released2026-07-30

Context window524K

ModalitiesText + image + audio

API price $/1M (in / out)$0.45 / $1.2 (OpenRouter)

Speedn/a

AccessAPI $0.45/$1.2 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter · free route on OpenRouter (thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free) · open weights · listed July 30, 2026

In one line

Inkling Small by Thinking Machines Lab, measured by Artificial Analysis at 25.7 on the Intelligence Index, 52.9 on coding and 23.5 on agentic work. Added to WhichAI automatically from live data on October 3, 2026: no editorial review yet, so judge it by the numbers, not by a verdict. OpenRouter's description: “Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total.”

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