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Inkling-Small

Inkling-Small is a general-purpose multimodal model that accepts text, image and audio inputs and generates text outputs. It is intended for use in English and other languages, and across multiple coding languages. The model is designed to be used by developers building AI-powered applications, including agentic and tool-use systems, coding assistants, chatbots, and retrieval-augmented generation systems, and is suit...

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266.0 B
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Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS View on Hugging Face ↗

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

FileQuantSizeEst. VRAMVerdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors bf16 531.9 GB 625.5 GB ❌ Won’t fit
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Use via API

via OpenRouter · USD per 1M tokens · synced 2026-10-24
$0.45
input / 1M
$1.20
output / 1M
$0.10
cached input / 1M
$1.65
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Context window
524,288 tokens
Max output
262,144 tokens
Providers
1
Cheapest provider
DeepInfra · $0.45 / $1.20
Best throughput
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AA Intelligence / Coding / Agentic
25.7 / 52.9 / 23.5
✓ Tool calling ✓ Reasoning ✗ Structured outputs ✓ Image input ✗ File input ✓ Audio input ✓ Prompt caching

Specifications

Architecture
InklingForConditionalGeneration
Parameters
266.0 B
Tensor type
BF16
Licence
apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub
2026-07-27
Training datasets
undisclosed
Added to our catalog
2026-10-20
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