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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:batch
Model weightsInkling Small (batch) is served by 1 provider and supports tool calling and reasoning.
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 the Inkling family and is suited for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, instruction following, and multilingual conversation.
Modalities
In / out price
$0.36 / $0.96per 1M
Context
524K
Released
Jul 30, 2026