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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

thinkingmachines/inkling-small

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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...

specs & pricing
Type
text
Provider
thinkingmachines
Model ID
thinkingmachines/inkling-small
Capabilities
vision, audio-in, tools, reasoning
Context window
524K tokens
Input price
$0.50 / 1M tokens
Output price
$1.32 / 1M tokens

Cloud price is billed from prepaid credits when a request fails over to the cloud. Open-weight models run free on GPUs you own — the gateway routes to your nodes first.

What it costs to run

cloud · 1M in + 1M out

$1.82

$0.50 for a million input tokens plus $1.32 for a million output tokens, billed from credits only when a request fails over to the cloud.

your hardware

cloud only

Thinking Machines: Inkling Small is a hosted model, so it is always served from the cloud. Route easy traffic to an open model on your own hardware and keep this one for the requests that need it.

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Call Thinking Machines: Inkling Small through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Mix it with open models on your own hardware — the gateway routes each request to the cheapest place that can serve it.

no credit card · 2 nodes free · openai-compatible

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of Thinking Machines: Inkling Small?
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small accepts up to 524,288 tokens (524K) of context per request.
How much does Thinking Machines: Inkling Small cost per million tokens?
Through Wide Area Intelligence, Thinking Machines: Inkling Small costs $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $1.32 per 1M output tokens when served from the cloud, billed from prepaid credits. A workload of 1M input plus 1M output tokens costs $1.82.

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