LLMthinkingmachines

Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

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...

Anyone in the Project can @-mention Thinking Machines: Inkling Small with the team's shared context - pooled credits, one chat, one memory.

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Specifications

Provider: thinkingmachines
Category: llm
Context length: 524,288 tokens
Max output: 262,144 tokens
Modalities: text, image, audio
License: proprietary
Released: 2026-07-30

Pricing

Input: $0.45/Mtok
Output: $1.20/Mtok
Model ID: thinkingmachines/inkling-small

Per-token prices show what the model costs upstream. On Switchy your team draws from one shared org credit pool - one plan, one balance for everyone.

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Seats5 peopleMessages / seat / day80Avg turn size2 ktokOutput share30 %

Estimated monthly spend

$11.88

17.6M tokens / month
5 seats · 80 msgs/day

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