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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... Built by Thinking Machines.

Prices updated

Input price

$0.45

per 1M tokens · Standard

Output price

$1.20

per 1M tokens · Standard

Input limit

524K

tokens

Output limit

262K

tokens

Input formats

TextImageVideoAudioPDF

Output formats

TextImageVideoAudioPDF
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Inkling Small price history

2 price records since 10/8/2026

Inkling Small cost calculator

Input20M tokens
Output5M tokens

$15/month

Standard pricing

    Overview

    What is Inkling Small?

    Inkling Small is a text & reasoning and vision model from Thinking Machines. 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... Its 524K context window and $0.45 input price make it a candidate for quality-focused production applications.

    Image understandingDocument analysisContent workflowsClassification

    Rates

    Inkling Small pricing

    Pricing is based on token usage. Provider-specific caching, batch, regional, and tool charges may affect the final cost.

    Input · Standard

    $0.45

    Per 1M tokens

    Cached input · Standard

    $0.10

    Per 1M tokens

    Capabilities

    Inkling Small Tools

    Tools available when using Inkling Small through supported provider APIs.

    Function calling

    Supported

    Structured outputs

    Not supported

    JSON mode

    Not supported

    Reasoning

    Supported

    Built-in web search

    Not supported

    Log probabilities

    Not supported

    Deterministic seed

    Supported

    Parallel tool calls

    Not supported

    Prompt caching

    Supported

    Strengths and limitations

    Strengths

    • Priced at $0.45 input and $1.20 output per million tokens.
    • 524K context supports large documents, repositories and extended conversations.
    • Supports text & reasoning and vision workloads in one model.

    Limitations

    • Real-world cost still depends on prompt length, response length and provider-specific billing rules.
    • Large context capacity does not guarantee consistent retrieval across the entire prompt.
    • Arena Elo and MMLU-Pro are directional; test accuracy, latency and reliability on your own workload before committing.

    Arena Elo, MMLU-Pro and pricing figures are illustrative; validate current vendor terms before purchase.

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    Frequently asked questions about Inkling Small

    Inkling Small is a text & reasoning and vision model from Thinking Machines. 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...