MODEL PROOF
Inkling Small
TRADE-OFF
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher score and an equal-or-lower price, with capability losses.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro · Δ score 77.3 points · 15% lower measured price
- 262K → 131K max output
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,413.7 ± 4.87 · 27,070 votes
- Context window
- 524.29K
- Maximum output
- 262.14K
- Input modalities
- text, image, audio
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.450 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $1.20 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from DeepInfra: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at a declared precision that is not 4-bit (fp8), at its standard rate. The maker’s own precision is not known.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.450/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $1.20/M |
| Cached input | $0.100/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
1 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfradeepinfra/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.450 | $1.20 | fp8 | 99.99% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1413.7default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 524K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 262K |
| Input modes | text, image, audio |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
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...
Questions this page answers
What does Inkling Small cost?
$0.450/M in, $1.20/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Inkling Small have an independent quality score?
Inkling Small has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Inkling Small?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price, with capability trade-offs.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Inkling Small?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
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