thinkingmachines/inkling-smallInkling Small is Thinking Machines’s AI model, released Jul 30, 2026. It costs $0.58/M input and $1.44/M output tokens, and handles a 524K-token context window. Its strongest use case is coding, where it ranks in the 71st percentile of the models Model Beat tracks.
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total.
Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher is better — and rank shows where Inkling Small lands among all models tracked on Model Beat.
Graduate-level scientific reasoning
Frontier of human expert knowledge
Scientific research coding
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total.
Inkling Small is an AI model developed by Thinking Machines, released Jul 30, 2026.
Inkling Small is served from $0.58 per million input tokens and $1.44 per million output tokens (cheapest credible provider on OpenRouter: DeepInfra).
Inkling Small supports a context window of up to 524K tokens.
On standardized evaluations tracked by Epoch AI, Inkling Small scores 89.5% on GPQA Diamond, 48.7% on SciCode, 31.6% on Humanity's Last Exam.
Benchmark data from Epoch AI (CC BY) and Artificial Analysis; pricing, specs & descriptions from OpenRouter. Data updated Aug 2, 2026.