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Inkling Small

by Kilo Gateway · family ling · listed Jul 2026RTVW

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...

Current rates USD per 1M tokens

Input$0.45
Output$1.20
Cache read$0.10
Cache write

Against the market

Input price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek V4 Pro: $0.435 per 1M tokens$0.435Inkling SmallInkling Small: $0.45 per 1M tokens$0.45Gemini 3.7 FlashGemini 3.7 Flash: $0.75 per 1M tokens$0.75Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral Medium 3.5: $1.50 per 1M tokens$1.50Grok 4.6Grok 4.6: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00Qwen3.8 MaxQwen3.8 Max: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00Claude Opus 5Claude Opus 5: $5.00 per 1M tokens$5.00GPT-5.6 SolGPT-5.6 Sol: $5.00 per 1M tokens$5.00
Output price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
DeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek V4 Pro: $0.87 per 1M tokens$0.87Inkling SmallInkling Small: $1.20 per 1M tokens$1.20Gemini 3.7 FlashGemini 3.7 Flash: $3.75 per 1M tokens$3.75Grok 4.6Grok 4.6: $6.00 per 1M tokens$6.00Qwen3.8 MaxQwen3.8 Max: $6.00 per 1M tokens$6.00Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral Medium 3.5: $7.50 per 1M tokens$7.50Claude Opus 5Claude Opus 5: $25.00 per 1M tokens$25.00GPT-5.6 SolGPT-5.6 Sol: $30.00 per 1M tokens$30.00

On the record

Model id
thinkingmachines/inkling-small
Context window
524K tokens
Max output
262K tokens
Input modalities
text, image, audio
Output modalities
text
Reasoning
yes
Tool calls
yes
Open weights
yes
Knowledge cutoff
Released
2026-07-30
Last updated
2026-07-30
Provider docs
kilo.ai

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