thinkingmachines / text-generation API-only released 2026-11-09

Inkling 2 Small (free)

Inkling 2 Small is a 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 Inkling...

Input / 1M
Free
Output / 1M
Free
Context
1M
AA Intelligence
30.6
Closed weights — available only as a hosted API text + image → text View on OpenRouter ↗

Pricing

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-11-10
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input / 1M
Free
output / 1M
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cached input / 1M
Free
1M in + 1M out
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Context window
1,048,576 tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens
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AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
30.6 / — / —
✓ Tool calling ✓ Reasoning ✗ Structured outputs ✓ Image input ✗ File input ✗ Audio input ✗ Prompt caching

Price history

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Current: Free input · Free output per 1M tokens

Benchmarks

Third-party indices as published through OpenRouter — Artificial Analysis and Design Arena. Not measured by us.

AA Intelligence Index
30.6
AA Coding Index
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AA Agentic Index
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Specifications

Organisation
thinkingmachines
Released on OpenRouter
2026-11-09
Context window
1,048,576 tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens
Input
text, image
Output
text
Tokenizer
Other
Moderated by provider
No
OpenRouter id
thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small:free
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