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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Among the 319 chat models on CoreAI, Thinking Machines: Inkling Small ranks #81 by context window — 524K tokens, roughly 393,216 words or 786 pages of text in a single conversation. On price, it is the #53 cheapest of 145 standard-tier models by input cost. Released 2026-07-30, it is one of the 2 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 $0.00110 on Thinking Machines: Inkling Small's raw per-token rates; a heavy session with a 50K-token document costs about $0.031. On CoreAI you don't juggle these numbers — one subscription covers Thinking Machines: Inkling Small and 300+ other models under a plan usage limit, with no API keys. See plans.
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small handles 524K tokens of context — roughly 393,216 words, or about 786 pages of text in one conversation.
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small's underlying rates are $0.5 per 1M input tokens and $1.2 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 Small accepts image input, so you can attach screenshots, photos or diagrams and ask questions about them.
Yes. Thinking Machines: Inkling 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, MiniMax: MiniMax M3, inclusionAI: Ling-2.6-flash — similar tier and capability. The fastest way to choose is running one prompt through them side by side in CoreAI's Compare view.
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