Inkling 2 Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 17B active parameters out of 594B total. It is the first model in the second...
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Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small holds the #44 spot for context size out of 418 chat models in the CoreAI catalog — 1.0M tokens, roughly 786,432 words or 1,573 pages of text in a single conversation. On price, it is the #33 cheapest of 202 standard-tier models by input cost. Released 2026-11-09, it is one of the 9 newest additions to the catalog. It supports step-by-step reasoning (thinking mode) and accepts image input.
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A typical question (about 1,000 tokens in, 500 out) runs $0.00080 on Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small's raw per-token rates; a heavy session with a 50K-token document costs about $0.020. On CoreAI you don't juggle these numbers — one subscription covers Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small and 300+ other models under a plan usage limit, with no API keys. See plans.
Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small handles 1.0M tokens of context — roughly 786,432 words, or about 1,573 pages of text in one conversation.
Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small's underlying rates are $0.3 per 1M input tokens and $1 per 1M output tokens. On CoreAI it is included in one subscription alongside 300+ models, so there is no per-token billing to manage.
Yes — Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small accepts image input, so you can attach screenshots, photos or diagrams and ask questions about them.
Yes. Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small can work through problems step by step before answering; on CoreAI you can toggle thinking mode per message.
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The closest alternatives on CoreAI are Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch), Google: Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — similar capability. The fastest way to choose is running one prompt through them side by side in CoreAI's Compare view.
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