Inkling (free)
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 (free)
Added 3 Sept 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:free`.
- openrouter ·
thinkingmachines/inkling:freeDocs
OpenRouter id: thinkingmachines/inkling:free
Benchmarks
- Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis) : 32.2 index
- Coding Index (artificial-analysis) : 52.1 index
- Agentic Index (artificial-analysis) : 24.4 index
- Design Arena 3d (other) : 1195 elo · #50
- Design Arena asciiart (other) : 1119 elo · #52
- Design Arena codecategories (other) : 1215 elo · #46
- Design Arena dataviz (other) : 1186 elo · #59
Notes
Inkling (free) is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.
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