# Inkling Small — price & specs

Source: https://modelbank.ai/models/inkling-small · updated 2026-11-12 · ModelBank

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Vendor | Thinkingmachines |
| Input price | $0.45 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $1.2 / 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.1 / 1M tokens |
| Context window | 524,288 tokens |
| Max output | 262,144 tokens |
| Input modalities | text,image,audio |
| Reasoning / tool use | yes / yes |
| Intelligence / coding index | 12.9 / 52.9 |
| Released | 2026-07-30 |
| Retirement date | none announced |

## About

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...

## Price history

- 2026-09-24: $0.45 in / $1.2 out

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