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Why use Inkling 2 Small on Vercel AI Gateway?
Vercel AI Gateway offers Inkling 2 Small with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.30/1M input tokens. Vercel AI Gateway is a unified AI proxy providing a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint to 275+ models from 25+ providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, DeepSeek, xAI, Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Cohere, MiniMax, MoonshotAI, KwaiPilot, Black Forest Labs, Recraft, Voyage AI, NVIDIA, and more.
Compare Inkling 2 Small across 6 providers to find the best fit for your use caseSetup recipe
Python + curlpip install openaiexport AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=...import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],thinkingmachines/inkling-2-smallRequest example
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1"
)
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".
- creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2
- The examples expect AI_GATEWAY_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.