Model

Inkling Small

Name: Inkling Small
Brand: thinkingmachines

Multimodal MoE reasoning model (276B total, 12B active) for text, image, and audio

11 providers · 14 listingsreleased Jul 30, 2026open weightsbeta

$0.45

lowest input /M · Deep Infra

$1.20

lowest output /M · Deep Infra

1.05M

context window

1.05M

max output

Compare providers (sorted by listed input price)

11 providers list Inkling Small. The cheapest full-context option is OpenRouter at $0.45/$1.2 per M. Deep Infra lists lower but caps context at 524K.

			Cache read /M	Cache write /M		Capabilities	Status
Deep Infra thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small	$0.45	$1.20	$0.1	—	524K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision		Jul 30, 2026
Kilo Gatewayvariant thinkingmachines/inkling-small	$0.45	$1.20	$0.1	—	524K	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision		Jul 30, 2026
OpenRoutervariant thinkingmachines/inkling-small	$0.45	$1.20	$0.1	—	1.05M	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision		Jul 30, 2026
Eden AIvariant deepinfra/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small	$0.45	$1.20	$0.1	—	524K	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision		Jul 30, 2026
NanoGPT thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small	$0.5	$1.20	$0.1	—	524K	no reasoningtoolsno structuredvision		Jul 30, 2026
Pioneer thinkingmachines/inkling-small	$0.5	$1.20	$0.1	$0.5	1M	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision		Jul 30, 2026
Hugging Face thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small	$0.5	$1.20	—	—	524K	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision		Jul 30, 2026
Baseten thinkingmachines/inkling-small	$0.5	$1.20	$0.1	—	1.05M	reasoningtoolsstructuredvision		Jul 30, 2026
Vercel AI Gateway thinkingmachines/inkling-small	$0.5	$1.20	$0.1	—	1M	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision		Jul 30, 2026
Arcee thinkingmachines/inkling-small	$0.5	$1.20	$0.1	—	262K	reasoningtoolsno structuredno vision	beta	Jul 30, 2026
Eden AIvariant together_ai/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small	$0.5	$1.20	$0.1	—	524K	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision		Jul 30, 2026
LLMTR thinkingmachines/inkling-small	$0.58	$1.44	—	—	262K	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision		Jul 30, 2026
Kilo Gatewayvariant thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free	—	—	—	—	1.05M	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision		Jul 30, 2026
OpenRoutervariant thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free	—	—	—	—	1.05M	reasoningtoolsno structuredvision		Jul 30, 2026

Best price history

Daily lowest published price across live providers. A lower line is better for the buyer.

Best input /M: $0.45unchanged
Best output /M: $1.20unchanged
Provider coverage: 14; 13 at the start · 24 snapshots

Published best prices are unchanged.

24 daily snapshots collected from Aug 21, 2026 through Sep 14, 2026. A price chart will appear after the first real move.

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Recent changes

Changelog →

new modelvia pioneer · Sep 13, 2026
capabilityvia nano-gpt · Sep 9, 2026
- modalities.input: text,image → text,image,audio
capabilityvia edenai · Sep 7, 2026
- name: Inkling Small → Inkling Small (Deep Infra)
capabilityvia edenai · Sep 7, 2026
- name: Inkling Small → Inkling Small (Together AI)
contextvia openrouter · Aug 25, 2026
- context: 262K → 1.05M tokens
contextvia kilo · Aug 24, 2026
- context: 262K → 1.05M tokens

Weights

Permissiveapache-2.0266B params

Standard open-source terms. Commercial use without additional conditions. Weights download without an access request.

licence and gating from the Hugging Face model card ↗ — the card is authoritative, this is a summary

Hugging Face

Prices are per million tokens (USD). “—” means the provider does not publicly list a price for this model. Data from models.dev; verify with the provider before purchasing.