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# Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) — free route, unrated · Undominated.ai

> Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) is listed as a free route in this catalogue. No independent quality score. Unrated is not zero.

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# Inkling Small (free)

Thinking Machines · 30 Jul 2026

 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

NOT INDEPENDENTLY RATED

## No independent LMArena score is published for this model.

 **Free** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026

 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) Independent LMArena score Not independently rated
 Context window 1.05M
 Maximum output 262.14K
 Input modalities text, image, audio
 Output modalities text
 Published input price Free / 1M tokens
 Published output price Free / 1M tokens
 Pricing kind fixed

Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below. See [free routes](/free/) and [OpenRouter or direct](/openrouter-vs-direct/).

 Every price dimension · USD per million tokens

| Input | free /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | free /M |
| Cached input | Unknown /M |
| Cache write | Unknown /M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown /M |
| Reasoning | Unknown /M |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model. Unrated is not a score of zero.

### Capability

| Context window | 1M |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 262K |
| Input modes | text, image, audio |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | Unknown |

### Provenance

| Price source | [openrouter.ai](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | unrated |

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 (free) cost?

free/M in, free/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

 Does Inkling Small (free) have an independent quality score?

Inkling Small (free) has no independent quality score in this catalogue. Unrated is not a score of zero.

 What beats Inkling Small (free)?

Inkling Small (free) has no independent quality score. Unrated is not a score of zero.

 Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Inkling Small (free)?

No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.

 Does a missing score mean Inkling Small (free) scored zero?

Unrated is not a score of zero.

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