Inkling Small
Provider：Thinking Machines
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...
Key specs
- Context：1M
- Max output：262.1K
- Tokenizer：Other
- Released：2026-07-30
Token pricing
- Input price：$0.450 / 1M tokens
- Output price：$1.20 / 1M tokens
- Cache read：$0.100 / 1M tokens
- Blended price：$0.637 / 1M tokens
Modalities
Text, Image, Audio
Use Cases
- Deep Reasoning & Analysis：Process long legal docs, academic papers, financial reports; multi-hop reasoning and evidence-chain tracing across huge contexts.（≈ $0.0096/call）
- Vision Understanding & Generation：Recognize data trends in charts, OCR scanned docs, analyze photos and produce structured reports.（≈ $0.0072/call）
- Voice Interaction：Speech recognition & transcription, mixed CN/EN and dialect support — meeting notes, QA.
When to pick this model
Signals derived from public pricing and spec fields — not a benchmark. Validate with official docs and your own eval.
- Low input + output price: solid fit for high-frequency calls and batch processing.
- Long context (>=1M tokens): well-suited for long-doc QA, code-base analysis, multi-turn agents.
- Long max output (>=30K tokens): strong fit for deep report / essay / document-drafting workflows.
- Multimodal (text+image): fit for image captioning, OCR, chart QA, vision-grounded reasoning.
- Audio support: fit for speech-to-text / voice agent / transcript analysis.
FAQ
- What is the token pricing of Inkling Small? Input price $0.450 / 1M tokens, output price $1.20 / 1M tokens, blended about $0.637 / 1M tokens. Refer to Thinking Machines’s official page for the exact rate.
- What context window does Inkling Small support? Context window is 1M, max output about 262.1K, suitable for long documents, multi-turn chat and complex reasoning.
- What scenarios is Inkling Small best for? Based on its capability and pricing, Inkling Small fits best: Deep Reasoning & Analysis, Vision Understanding & Generation, Voice Interaction. See the Use Cases section for details and cost estimates.
- What input/output modalities does Inkling Small support? Supports Text, Image, Audio modality.
- Is Inkling Small a free model? Inkling Small is billed per token, not a free model.
- Which provider offers Inkling Small? Inkling Small is offered by Thinking Machines.
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