Inkling
by Thinkingmachines
Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning
Models
Inkling
Added 18 July 2026
Overview
Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning, coding, agentic and tool-use systems,...
How to use / API access
Call via OpenRouter with model id `thinkingmachines/inkling`.
- openrouter ·
thinkingmachines/inklingDocs
OpenRouter id: thinkingmachines/inkling
Benchmarks
- Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 25 index
- Coding Index (artificial-analysis): 52.1 index
- Agentic Index (artificial-analysis): 22.5 index
- Design Arena webapps (other): 1194 elo · #22
- Design Arena 3d (other): 1162 elo · #63
- Design Arena asciiart (other): 1094 elo · #62
- Design Arena codecategories (other): 1207 elo · #56
Notes
Inkling is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.
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