Inkling Small
thinking-machines/inkling-small- Thinking Machines
- Family · Inkling Small
- Released 30 Jul 2026
- Open weights
- Text · Image · Audio → Text
- Reasoning · adjustable
- Tools · Vision
Not on OSMEXO yet
Spec & list price
Context1M
Max output256K
Input / 1M$0.45
Output / 1M$1.202.7× input
Scores · standing
Intelligence25.7#90/489
Coding52.9#60/196
Usage
Tokens / day28.7B▼ 83% 7d
Usage rank#62
Requests / day18.1K
Tool calls / req0.44
Per request · 30 days
Avg input12.5K0.8× median
Avg output1.0K1.5× median
Cache hit77%about median
Reasoning share78%1.4× median
Tool-call failures2.6%1.4× median
Consumption
Peak 7.5B 21 OctLow 110.8M 1 NovRank today #62
News & trends
News · latest from Thinking Machines
Benchmarks
bar = share of the top score · Benchmark data: Artificial AnalysisSpeed · median across 2 providers, latest day
Output speed#46/334126 tok/s1.9× faster than median
Fastest provider175 tok/sbest of 2 providers
First token#1751.11 sabout median
First answer token#4411 sthinking included
#10 cheapest of 28 with a similar score
Value
Intelligence Index
Blended price per 1M tokens (log)
Technical details
- Reasoning
- on · high
- Tokenizer
- Other
- License
- Apache 2.0
- Parameters
- 266B
- Moderation
- none
- Downloads · likes
- 1.4M · 435
Reasoning effort
- max
- high · default
- medium
- low
- minimal
- none
Request parameters 16
- tools
- tool_choice
- reasoning
- reasoning_effort
- include_reasoning
- temperature
- top_p
- top_k
- min_p
- max_tokens
+6 more
- stop
- seed
- frequency_penalty
- logit_bias
- presence_penalty
- repetition_penalty
Interesting facts
- 2.5× the output room of similar models (262.1K against a 106.5K median).
- Weekdays average 1.4B tokens a day against 787.6M on weekends.
When to use
Best for
- Audio and image understanding in apps
- Graduate-level science question answering
- Very long document analysis
- Coding help with tool calling
Think twice for
- Structured-output pipelines
- Hardest agentic benchmarks
- Image or audio generation
- Reasoning-effort tuning
Alternatives
other vendors · similar capability- 29.2
- 26.3
- 21.8
- 21.5
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