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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)

thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free

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Price Published

Input
$0
per million tokens
Output
$0
per million tokens

A $0 token rate isn't unlimited. OpenRouter applies free-tier rate and daily limits, and needs an account and API key.

Other listings of this model

  • Paid version thinkingmachines/inkling-small · $0.45 / $1.20

Specifications Published

Context window
1,048,576 tokens
Max output
262,144 tokens
Tool calling
Supported
Vision input
Supported
Reasoning
Supported
Knowledge cutoff
Not reported
Listed since
Jul 30, 2026

Measured by the Club Signed cheapoS reports

Request success
Too few to rate
0 of 10 known outcomes succeeded · rates start at 20
Avg request time
8,682 ms
10 timed reports · includes generation
Rate-limit / quota failures
0
of 10 reported failures

10 request reports from 1 member · OpenRouter via OmniRoute · Sep 22, 2026 to Sep 23, 2026

What these numbers mean

0 cancelled and 0 unknown outcomes are excluded from the success percentage. Request success means the provider answered; it doesn't mean the code or task succeeded. The likely range is a 95% Wilson interval: with few outcomes it stays wide, and one bad day can move the rate a lot. Rates need at least 20 known outcomes and averages at least 5 timed reports.

  • credential access: 1
  • transient provider: 9

How we measure · Reports come from cheapoS members who share model details.

Benchmarks Artificial Analysis via OpenRouter

Intelligence index
Not reported
Coding index
52.9
Agentic index
Not reported

Scores from Artificial Analysis, as distributed in the OpenRouter catalog. They measure test suites, not request reliability on real work.

Try it

  1. Get an OpenRouter API key. Create one here (free models need an account, not credits). Other free tiers are compared on Providers.
  2. Add it to cheapoS. Open Models → Open OmniRoute, add OpenRouter with your key, then refresh models. Get cheapoS
  3. Pick this model. Use the ID thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free as a worker or reviewer, and start with a small task you can check.

About this model OpenRouter description

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...

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Catalog data from the OpenRouter model catalog, retrieved Sep 29, 2026, 12:37 PM UTC. A listing isn't a live availability check.