Using Inkling-Small on OpenRouter

Implementation guide · Inkling · Thinking Machines Lab

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OpenRouter exposes Inkling-Small through model ID thinkingmachines/inkling-small. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call thinkingmachines/inkling-small — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.45/1M input, $1.20/1M output tokens. See full pricing.
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Code Examples

See OpenRouter documentation for integration details.

Pricing on OpenRouter

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.45
Output tokens$1.20

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useAudio

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.

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Model Specs

Released2026-07-30
Parameters276B (12B activated)
ArchitectureMixture of Experts

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Provider

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New York, NY, USA