Model 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...
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Key features
- Multimodal input support for text, image, and audio
- Mixture-of-experts architecture with 12B active parameters (out of 276B total)
- Open-weight model designed for efficiency and reasoning-intensive tasks
Limitations & considerations
Sources are insufficient to establish specific limitations. Verify task performance, latency, data policies, licensing and version lifecycle.
Source prices & cost analysis
Prices vary by channel, region and configuration. Channel quotes are listed independently and are not treated as a single official provider price.
| Source / channel | Input | Output | Billing unit | Collected at |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter · thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free ↗ | USD 0 | USD 0 | Per million tokens | 2026/11/2 06:25:22 |
Estimate monthly base token costs
Estimates exclude cache discounts, tiered pricing, multimodal surcharges, web search, taxes and additional reasoning output.
Public benchmarks & run configuration
暂无已采集的可核验公开评分。模型未上榜不代表能力较低。
View full indexed rankings →Frequently asked questions
Is Inkling Small truly open-weight?
Yes — the model is described as 'open-weight' in the provided source.
What does '12B active parameters out of 276B total' mean?
It indicates a sparse MoE architecture where only 12 billion parameters are activated per inference, selected from a total pool of 276 billion parameters.
Does Inkling Small support multimodal output?
No — the documented outputs are text-only; no multimodal output (e.g., image or audio generation) is mentioned.
Do open weights permit free commercial use?
Not necessarily. Check the version license, commercial conditions and usage policies. Self-hosting incurs compute and maintenance costs.
Are these real-time billing prices?
These are timestamped source snapshots, not live billing prices. Check the channel for current versions, regions, discounts and billing methods.
Sources & traceability
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