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Why use Inkling-Small on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter offers Inkling-Small with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.45/1M input tokens. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.
Setup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: thinkingmachines/inkling-smallthinkingmachines/inkling-smallRequest example
thinkingmachines/inkling-small.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "thinkingmachines/inkling-small", not the LLMReference slug "inkling-small".
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.45 |
| Output tokens | $1.20 |
Capabilities
About Inkling-Small
Thinking Machines Inkling-Small (HF thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small) is the smaller open-weight sibling of Inkling, announced 30 July 2026. It is a general-purpose multimodal model that takes text, image (40-4096px) and 16 kHz WAV audio input and produces text. Architecture: 42-layer decoder-only sparse MoE with 276B total and 12B active parameters (6 of 256 experts plus 2 shared) and hybrid local/global attention, shipped in BF16 and NVFP4. Apache 2.0. Hosted by DeepInfra, Together and Baseten per HF provider mapping.