Inkling Small (free)
by Thinkingmachines
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
Models
Inkling Small (free)
Added 3 Sept 2026
Overview
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...
How to use / API access
Call via OpenRouter with model id `thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free`.
- openrouter ·
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:freeDocs
OpenRouter id: thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
Benchmarks
- Coding Index (artificial-analysis) : 52.9 index
- Agentic Index (artificial-analysis) : 25.1 index
Notes
Inkling Small (free) is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.
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