# Inkling Small

> Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total and a 1M-token context window. Distinct from thinkingmachines/inkling. Served free via the platform free pool on the OpenRouter :free wire, with paid BYOK as a fallback.

**ID**: `thinkingmachines/inkling-small`  
**Creator**: thinkingmachines  
**Category**: text  
**Context**: 1M tokens  
**Pricing**: $0.45 / $1.20 per 1M · billed by your provider (BYOK)  
**Released**: 2026-07-30  
**Web page**: https://anyrouter.dev/model/thinkingmachines/inkling-small

**Input modalities**: text, image, audio  
**Output modalities**: text  

**Capabilities**: chat, streaming, reasoning, vision, function-calling

**Aliases**: `thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free`

## Usage

**Endpoint**: `POST https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions`

```bash
curl https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
  "model": "thinkingmachines/inkling-small",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Say hi in 3 words."
    }
  ]
}'
```

## Providers

| Provider | Input | Output |
| --- | --- | --- |
| hue | $0 | $0 |
| openrouter-byok | $0.45/M (list) | $1.20/M (list) |
| openrouter-byok | $0.45/M (list) | $1.20/M (list) |
| commandcode-byok | $0.45/M (list) | $1.20/M (list) |
| nousresearch-byok | $0.45/M (list) | $1.20/M (list) |
| hermes-agent-byok | $0.45/M (list) | $1.20/M (list) |
| vercel-byok | $0.45/M (list) | $1.20/M (list) |

BYOK routes are billed by your own provider key — AnyRouter charges $0. Rates marked (list) are the provider's published list price.

## Source

- Upstream docs: https://thinkingmachines.ai/