Inkling Small (free)
Inkling Small · Free tier (Free)
Free tier: zero-cost access to try the model with limited quota — great for prototyping and light use.
Best for: Dev testing, light trials, low-frequency calls
This page covers the Inkling Small Free tier, sharing the underlying model capability with its real-time standard tier; the main difference is in billing mode and invocation method. See the Inkling Small standard real-time tier.
Provider：Thinking Machines · Free
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：Free / 1M tokens
- Output price：Free / 1M tokens
- Blended price：Free / 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.（Free）
- Vision Understanding & Generation：Recognize data trends in charts, OCR scanned docs, analyze photos and produce structured reports.（Free）
- 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.
- Low blended price: budget-friendly for fleet-scale deployment.
- 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 (free)? Input price Free / 1M tokens, output price Free / 1M tokens, blended about Free / 1M tokens. Refer to Thinking Machines’s official page for the exact rate.
- What context window does Inkling Small (free) 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 (free) best for? Based on its capability and pricing, Inkling Small (free) 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 (free) support? Supports Text, Image, Audio modality.
- Is Inkling Small (free) a free model? Yes, Inkling Small (free) is free to use, good for budget-sensitive or prototyping scenarios.
- Which provider offers Inkling Small (free)? Inkling Small (free) is offered by Thinking Machines.
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