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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) pricing

Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) from OpenRouter costs free per 1M input tokens and free per 1M output tokens. Context window 1,048,576 tokens.

API id thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free · OpenRouter · source · updated 2026-09-25 · general-purpose

Free
Input / 1M tokens
Free
Output / 1M tokens
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Cached input / 1M
1M
Context window

Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) specifications

Provider
OpenRouter
API id
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
Model type
general-purpose
Context window
1M tokens
Max output
262K tokens
Currency
USD
Price source
Provider API
Last checked
2026-09-25

Tags

  • reasoning
  • vision

What Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) costs in practice

Estimated cost at common usage volumes
WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensEstimated cost
Short chat turn1,000500Free
Document summary50,0002,000Free
1M tokens in, 200K out1,000,000200,000Free

Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.

Common questions

How much does Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) cost per 1M tokens?
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) costs free per 1M input tokens and free per 1M output tokens on the standard tier.
What is Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)'s context window?
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 262,144 output tokens.
Where does this Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) price come from?
From the OpenRouter catalogue, because OpenRouter does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from OpenRouter's own — verify before committing spend.

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