Inkling Small

thinkingmachines/inkling-small

Maker: Thinking Machines Lab, United States
Released: 2026-07-30
Family: ling
Weights: open
Tasks: text.chat, text.reasoning, code, vision.understand, vision.extract
Cheapest offering: OpenRouter, about $0 for a typical text.chat call

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Offerings

Provider	Model id at the provider	Status	Price per 1M tokens	Per-unit prices	Limits	Capabilities (level)
DeepInfra	`thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small`	ga	Input: $0.45 Output: $1.2 Cache read: $0.1 Since 2026-11-03 · models.dev, MIT	none	Context: 524,288 tokens Max output: 1,048,576 tokens	`input.text` claimed `input.image` claimed `input.audio` claimed `input.pdf` claimed `output.text` claimed `tools` claimed `structured_output` claimed `reasoning` claimed `tool_choice` claimed `prompt_caching` claimed
OpenRouter	`thinkingmachines/inkling-small`	ga	Input: $0.45 Output: $1.2 Cache read: $0.1 Since 2026-11-03 · models.dev, MIT	none	Context: 524,288 tokens Max output: 262,144 tokens	`input.text` claimed `input.image` claimed `input.audio` claimed `input.pdf` claimed `output.text` claimed `tools` claimed `reasoning` claimed
OpenRouter	`thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free`	ga	Input: $0 Output: $0 Since 2026-11-03 · models.dev, MIT	none	Context: 1,048,576 tokens Max output: 262,144 tokens	`input.text` claimed `input.image` claimed `input.audio` claimed `input.pdf` claimed `output.text` claimed `tools` claimed `reasoning` claimed

Quality scores

Basis	Score (0–1)	Raw	Measured	Source
`epoch:gpqa_diamond`	0.918	0.8851	2026-08-14	Epoch AI, CC-BY-4.0, normalized by Nanner Tech
`lmarena:vision_style_control`	0.743	1208.7514	2026-10-19	LMArena, CC-BY-4.0, normalized by Nanner Tech
`epoch:frontiermath`	0.494	0.4632	2026-08-14	Epoch AI, CC-BY-4.0, normalized by Nanner Tech
`lmarena:webdev`	0.181	1409.1377	2026-10-28	LMArena, CC-BY-4.0, normalized by Nanner Tech
`lmarena:agent`	0.000	-0.1689	2026-11-02	LMArena, CC-BY-4.0, normalized by Nanner Tech

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thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free

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curl 'https://rhumbdata.com/v1/models/thinkingmachines/inkling-small' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RHUMB_KEY"

Resolve text.chat on its providers

curl 'https://rhumbdata.com/v1/resolve?task=text.chat&providers=deepinfra,openrouter' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RHUMB_KEY"

Built from catalog version 2026-11-04.3 of 2026-11-04. Prices are list prices per 1M tokens unless marked otherwise; every score shows its source's notice (see Attributions).