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Why use Inkling 2 Small on Together AI?
Together AI offers Inkling 2 Small with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.30/1M input tokens. Together AI is a platform for running open-source and proprietary LLMs with fast serverless and dedicated endpoints at competitive inference pricing.
Compare Inkling 2 Small across 6 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
Python + curlpip install togetherexport TOGETHER_API_KEY=...from together import Together
client = Together() # reads TOGETHER_API_KEY from env
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small",thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-SmallRequest example
from together import Together
client = Together() # reads TOGETHER_API_KEY from env
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "thinkingmachines/Inkling-2-Small", not the LLMReference slug "inkling-2-small".
- Together uses "organization/model-name" format, e.g. "meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct" or "Qwen/QwQ-32B". See the Together model catalog for the exact ID.
- The examples expect TOGETHER_API_KEY; rename it only if your application config maps the new variable.
Compare Inkling 2 Small Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Tinker | $0.30 | $1.00 |
| OpenRouter | Free | Free |
| Together AI | $0.30 | $1.00 |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.30 | $1.00 |
| DeepInfra | $0.30 | $1.00 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.30 |
| Output tokens | $1.00 |
Capabilities
About Inkling 2 Small
Inkling 2 Small is Thinking Machines Lab's first second-generation Inkling model, released November 5, 2026. It is a 594B-total / 17B-active mixture-of-experts model for text and image inputs with text output, a context window of up to 1M tokens and controllable reasoning effort. It launched for inference and fine-tuning on Tinker; on November 12, 2026 Thinking Machines released its weights on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 (NVFP4, plus an MXFP8 variant), and it is also served by Together AI, Cloudflare Workers AI, DeepInfra and Vercel AI Gateway at $0.30 per 1M input and $1.00 per 1M output tokens.