Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Maximum output
- 262,144 tokens
- Input price
- Free per 1M tokens
- Output price
- Free per 1M tokens
- Modalities
- text, image, audio, audio-in
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Official description
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...
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Where this model fits
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free is part of the OpenRouter API catalog. Its documented modalities are text, image, audio, audio-in. Choose it against the request format, output requirements and operational limits of your application.
The source metadata identifies support for router hosting. Confirm endpoint-specific parameters in the official reference before integrating that capability.
For a repeatable evaluation, use representative requests, inspect structured output or tool calls, and log latency and usage in your own account. Catalog metadata establishes compatibility; it does not measure answer quality on your workload. Start from the provider guide for authentication and endpoint setup.
Current pricing
| Model | Price type | USD | Unit | Tier | Region | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) | Input | Free | per 1M tokens | Standard | See source | Official source ↗ |
| Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) | Output | Free | per 1M tokens | Standard | See source | Official source ↗ |
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Rate limits and availability
Published limits have not yet been verified for this selection. Check the official limits documentation and your account console.
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Account-specific capacity may differ. Check the provider rate-limit guide and the free-tier conditions.
Three alternatives to compare
These alternatives share a documented modality and have the closest combination of input price and context size in the current catalog. This is a specification comparison, not a quality benchmark.
| Model | Provider | Input / 1M tokens | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google: Lyria 3 Clip Preview | OpenRouter | Free | 1,048,576 |
| Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview | OpenRouter | Free | 1,048,576 |
| Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) | OpenRouter | Free | 1,048,576 |
Use the exact identifier in Python
This identifier fragment belongs in the authenticated request described in the provider Python tutorial. The tutorial covers the correct SDK, endpoint, environment variable and response shape.
model = "thinkingmachines\/inkling-small:free"
# Pass model to the provider-specific request in the tutorial.Recent changes
- OpenRouter · Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) — Amount UsdNot previously recorded → Price category: output · USD: 0 · Unit: freeSource ↗
- OpenRouter · Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) — Amount UsdNot previously recorded → Price category: input · USD: 0 · Unit: freeSource ↗
- OpenRouter · Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) — First SeenNot previously recorded → Model: Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)Source ↗
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