thinkingmachinesListed Jul 30, 2026

Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)

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...

Context window1M
Max output262.1K
Provider endpoints2
Benchmark results0
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OpenRouter

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Output
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1M context262.1K max outputPrice source ↗Checked Oct 19, 2026
Endpoint IDthinkingmachines/inkling-small:free

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thinkingmachines/nvfp4 · quantization=nvfp4

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1M context262.1K max outputPrice source ↗Checked Oct 18, 2026
Endpoint IDthinkingmachines/inkling-small:free::thinkingmachines/nvfp4

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Model specifications

Developer
thinkingmachines
Modality
Language
Context
1,048,576 tokens
Maximum output
262,144 tokens
Weights
Open weights
Provider listed
Jul 30, 2026
First discovered
Oct 16, 2026

Exact identities

  • openrouterthinkingmachines/inkling-small:free

Sources

Updated Oct 19, 2026

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