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Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small

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Inkling 2 Small is Thinking Machines’s AI model, released Nov 9, 2026. It costs $0.30/M input and $1/M output tokens, and handles a 1M-token context window.

Inkling 2 Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 17B active parameters out of 594B total.

Context
1M
Input
$0.30 / 1M
Output
$1 / 1M
Released
Nov 9, 2026
Modalities
textimage→text

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher is better — and rank shows where Inkling 2 Small lands among all models tracked on Model Beat.

No standardized benchmark scores from Epoch AI yet — common for very recent, image, or niche models. Scores appear here once published.

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Changelog

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  • Inkling 2 Small (Thinking Machines) added to the tracker: $0.3/$1 per 1M, 1M context.tracked · Nov 13, 2026

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Frequently asked questions

What is Inkling 2 Small?

Inkling 2 Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 17B active parameters out of 594B total.

Who created Inkling 2 Small?

Inkling 2 Small is an AI model developed by Thinking Machines, released Nov 9, 2026.

How much does Inkling 2 Small cost?

Inkling 2 Small is served from $0.30 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens (cheapest credible provider on OpenRouter: Together).

What is Inkling 2 Small's context window?

Inkling 2 Small supports a context window of up to 1M tokens.

Benchmark data from Epoch AI (CC BY) and Artificial Analysis; pricing, specs & descriptions from OpenRouter. Data updated Nov 13, 2026.