Thinking Machines: 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...
Everything else
| Max output | 262K |
|---|---|
| Input / 1M | $0.45 |
| Output / 1M | $1.20 |
| Cache read / 1M | $0.1 |
| Cache write / 1M | — |
| 1M in + 1M out | $1.65 |
| Takes | text, image, audio |
| Returns | text |
| Tools | yes |
| Reasoning | optional · max, high, medium, low, minimal, none |
| Open weights | yes |
| Released | 2026-07-30 |
| Knowledge cutoff | — |
| Retires | — |
| Catalog id | thinkingmachines/inkling-small |
Using it
In 00, this model is picked per agent — and per tier, so the model that answers your customers need not be the one that writes your code. Get 00.