Inkling Small (free)
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thinkingmachines/inkling-small:freeThis is the free OpenRouter endpoint for Thinking Machines Lab's Inkling-Small, a 276B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (12B active, Apache 2.0 license, 1M-token context) released July 30, 2026 as the smaller, efficient sibling in the Inkling family. Free access is rate-limited to agentic-harness use with prompt and output logging, making it best suited for evaluating its coding, agentic, and RAG capabilities rather than production workloads.
Cost rate
Free
Context
1M
Released
Jul 30, 2026
Input
TextImageAudio
Output
Text
Support
ReasoningTool callingStructured outputs
Best at
The categories where this model ranks highest.
Image understanding
#73 路 top 48%
Mathematical
#109 路 top 29%
Software & IT Services
#119 路 top 30%
Business, Management, & Finance
#138 路 top 35%
Performance
Median latency and throughput measured across recent requests.
Throughput184 tok/s
Latency