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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)

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

Inputfree
Outputfree
Cache read—
Cache write—

Against the market

Input price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free): free per 1M tokensfreeDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: $0.15 per 1M tokens$0.15Qwen3.8 Omni FlashQwen3.8 Omni Flash: $0.15 per 1M tokens$0.15Gemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3.8 Flash: $0.75 per 1M tokens$0.75GLM-5.3GLM-5.3: $1.40 per 1M tokens$1.40Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5.5: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00GPT-6.1 SolGPT-6.1 Sol: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00Grok 4.7Grok 4.7: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00
Output price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free): free per 1M tokensfreeQwen3.8 Omni FlashQwen3.8 Omni Flash: $0.47 per 1M tokens$0.47DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: $0.60 per 1M tokens$0.60Gemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3.8 Flash: $3.75 per 1M tokens$3.75GLM-5.3GLM-5.3: $4.40 per 1M tokens$4.40Grok 4.7Grok 4.7: $6.00 per 1M tokens$6.00Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5.5: $10.00 per 1M tokens$10.00GPT-6.1 SolGPT-6.1 Sol: $10.00 per 1M tokens$10.00

On the record

Model id
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
Context window
1.0M 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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