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Model IDthinkingmachines/inkling-small
Context window524K tokens
Max output262K tokens
Input price$0.45 / 1M tokens
Output price$1.20 / 1M tokens
Inputs → outputsText, Image, Audio → Text
Open weightsYes

How to use Inkling Small in your app

The quickest way is through an API gateway such as OpenRouter, which uses the same format as the OpenAI API. Create a key, then send a request with the model ID thinkingmachines/inkling-small:

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "thinkingmachines/inkling-small", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this in simple words..."}] }'

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Questions about Inkling Small

What is 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...

How big is the context window of Inkling Small?

Inkling Small can read up to 524,288 tokens in one request, roughly 393,216 words.

How much does Inkling Small cost?

Through OpenRouter, Inkling Small costs about $0.45 / 1M tokens for input and $1.20 / 1M tokens for output. Prices change, so check before large jobs.

Is Inkling Small open source?

Inkling Small has open weights, so you can download and run it yourself, subject to its licence.

What can Inkling Small take as input?

Inkling Small accepts text, image, audio and produces text.

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