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Inkling Small

Thinking Machines

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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Updated 3 h ago · first seen 11 Sept 2026

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Overview

Identity

Canonical model
Yesidentity confidence: mediumOne row per real model release. Artifacts (checkpoints, quantisations, conversions) and folded evaluation variants point here.
Official checkpoints
official_checkpoints = hf_repo identifiers carried by the model itself; artifacts are separate entities pointing here through canonical_id.
Artifacts
1 quantization0 official · 1 third-partySeparate entities (checkpoint · quantization · conversion · packaging) pointing to this model through canonical_id.
Provider deployments
1
API aliases
inkling-smallthinkingmachines/inkling-smallIdentifiers under which providers and evaluators refer to this model.
Folded evaluation variants
0Effort / thinking variants (…-high, …-non-reasoning) are result configurations of this model, not separate models. Their old URLs redirect here.

Openness

Open weights— weights downloadable; 7 dimensions unknown.

Weights downloadable under a permissive or Creative Commons licence allowing commercial use; code or data may be missing.

  • Weights

    Yes

  • Inference code

    —

  • Training code

    —

  • Training data

    —

  • Dataset

    —

  • Commercial use

    —

  • Redistribution

    —

  • Derivatives

    —

dimensions marked null are unknown, not false

Key facts

Release date

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Openrouter id

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Architecture

Hugging Face repo

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Capabilities

Modalities

Modalities
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Capabilities

  • Tool calling

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Structured output

    No

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Reasoning

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Vision

    Yes

    OpenRouter public model & pricing listing · T2

  • Audio

    Unavailable

  • Fine-tuning available

    Unavailable

Context window

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 10 h agomedium

Max output

Source:OpenRouter public model & pricing listingT2observed 13 h agomedium

Benchmarks14

Compare with another model →

Comparable same task and conditions · Partially comparable same task, conditions differ (effort, temperature, judge) · Not comparable different variant or metric

Benchmark results grouped by comparability group
Benchmark · groupBest scoreTrustConfigurationResultsvs leaderEvaluatedSource
Terminal-Benchagentic · accuracy · variant=v4.0 · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisvariantv4.0reasoningonconditions differ across rows → partially comparable2non-primary groupobs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
Terminal-Benchagentic · accuracy · variant=v2.1 · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisvariantv2.1reasoningonconditions differ across rows → partially comparable2non-primary groupobs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
SciCodecoding · accuracy · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisreasoningonconditions differ across rows → partially comparable2−13.4 ptvs Claude Fable 5.1obs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexcomposite · indexIndependentreasoningonversion4.3conditions differ across rows → partially comparable2−27.3vs Claude Fable 5.1obs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
Humanity's Last Examknowledge · accuracy · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisreasoningonconditions differ across rows → partially comparable2−25.8 ptvs Claude Fable 5.1obs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
MMMU-Promultimodal · accuracy · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial Analysisreasoningonconditions differ across rows → partially comparable2−12.8 ptvs gpt-6-astraobs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
GPQA Diamondreasoning · accuracy · variant=Diamond · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial AnalysisvariantDiamondreasoningonconditions differ across rows → partially comparable1non-primary groupobs. 12 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2
GPQA Diamondreasoning · accuracy · variant=GPQA Diamond · evaluator=Artificial AnalysisIndependentevaluatorArtificial AnalysisvariantGPQA Diamond1−6.77 ptvs gpt-6-astraobs. 11 Sept 2026artificialanalysis.aiT2

Current rows only, grouped by benchmark → canonical metric → comparability group (task configuration). Effort variants folded into this model appear as rows of the same group. 14 current rows in total. “vs leader” compares with the current leader of the benchmark's primary group only; other groups are not directly comparable. Comparability rules →

Providers & Pricing3

All offers in the price terminal →
Provider deployments, cheapest output first
ProviderContextInput / 1MCached inOutput / 1MStatusObservedSource
OpenRoutercheapest outputthinkingmachines/inkling-small:free1.05Mout 262.1K—active19 min agosince 11 Sept 2026openrouter.aiT2
OpenRouterthinkingmachines/inkling-small524.3Kout 262.1K$0.10active19 min agosince 11 Sept 2026openrouter.aiT2
OpenRouterthinkingmachines/inkling-small:batch524.3Kout 471.9K$0.10active19 min agosince 11 Sept 2026openrouter.aiT2

USD per 1M tokens as published by each provider; native units (per-request fees, flex/priority tiers) are kept verbatim. Rows are append-only — every price change is kept in the history below. Cost of a workload →

Price history

Step lines per provider; amber markers are recorded changes. Click a marker or a row for the evidence behind that price.

Output price · USD / 1M tokens 1 provider

Output price history of Inkling Small$0$0.50$1$1.5Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26OpenRouter: first observed → $1.2 · 11 Sept 2026OpenRouter: $1.2 → $0 · 11 Sept 2026
  • OpenRouter
  • OpenRouter$1.2 → $011 Sept 2026
  • OpenRouterfirst observed $1.211 Sept 2026

Input price · USD / 1M tokens 1 provider

Input price history of Inkling Small$0$0.20$0.40$0.60Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26Sept 26OpenRouter: first observed → $0.45 · 11 Sept 2026OpenRouter: $0.45 → $0.50 · 11 Sept 2026OpenRouter: $0.50 → $0 · 11 Sept 2026
  • OpenRouter
  • OpenRouter$0.50 → $011 Sept 2026
  • OpenRouter$0.45 → $0.5011 Sept 2026
  • OpenRouterfirst observed $0.4511 Sept 2026

Lineage

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Explicit derived_from / fine_tuned_from / distilled_from relations stated by sources; artifacts collapsed by kind.
DESCENDANTS 0 · ARTIFACTS1 quantizationartifacts · collapsed1 quantization — artifacts · collapsedInkling Smallthis modelInkling Small — this model

    Versions & Artifacts1

    Version history

    Context window2 changes

    11 Sept 2026→11 Sept 2026→12 Sept 2026current

    Max outputfirst observation only

    11 Sept 2026current

    Opennessfirst observation only

    11 Sept 2026current

    Each hop is a claim: click a value for its source, tier and observation time. Nothing is overwritten — a new observation closes the previous claim.

    Artifacts 1

    quantization 1

    Timeline8

    Full timeline →

    Change history

    Temporal, append-only claims: a new observation closes the previous claim instead of overwriting it. Rewind the record with the as-of picker.
    1 claims · 1 propertiesShow all properties

    Weights availableweights_available1

    Claim history for Weights available
    ValueValid from → toStatusSourceConfidenceExtractor
    Yes → currentcurrentAI Atlas curated registry (YAML, versioned in git, every entry carries its source URL)T2highderived

    Claims are temporal and append-only: a new observation closes the previous claim (valid_to) instead of overwriting it. Conflicting claims from different sources are kept side by side and flagged — never averaged. Methodology →

    Provenance

    Attributed facts

    20

    Source tiers

    T220

    Freshest observation

    3 h ago

    Conflicts

    None

    Source documents 3

    Source documents
    SourceDocumentTypeTierLast observedSnapshots
    OpenRouter public model & pricing listingopenrouter.ai/api/v1/models catalogueT2· Quality secondary19 min ago10
    Artificial Analysisartificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models leaderboardT2· Quality secondary3 h ago2
    Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)huggingface.co/unsloth/Inkling-Small-GGUF model_pageT2· Quality secondary6 h ago4

    Tier 1 = official/primary, 2 = quality secondary, 3 = community, 4 = unverified. Every snapshot is archived; see all sources and the methodology.

    Data quality (60/100) measures how well AI Atlas knows this entity — completeness, primary-source ratio, freshness, conflicts — never how good the model is. Methodology →