Inkling Small is Thinkingmachines's language model with a 1.0M context window and up to 262K output tokens, available from 4 providers, starting at $0.45 / 1M input and $1.20 / 1M output. A lightweight 12B-parameter reasoning LLM with vision and tool-use capabilities, offering lower cost and latency than the full Inkling model.
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
thinkingmachines-inkling-small | |
| Language | |
| Deprecated | |
| Thinkingmachines | |
| 1.0M tokens | |
| 262K tokens | |
| AudioImagePDFText | |
| Text | |
| default | |
| 266B | |
| 201 | |
| 2,971 | |
| 2,971 | |
| · 2 months ago | |
| Benchmarks | |
|---|---|
| Intelligence Index | #88 |
| Coding Index | #61 |
| GPQA | #52 |
| HLE | #69 |
| Time to First Token | #453 |
| SciCode | #57 |
| LCR | #78 |
| Output TPS | #38 |
Capabilities
Input4/5
Text✓
Image✓
Audio✓
Video·
PDF✓
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities5/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling✓
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs✓
Native JSON Schema✓
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching✓
Assistant Prefill·
Pricing by Provider
US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
| Provider | Standard | Free | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Cache Read $ / 1M | Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | |
| $0.45 | $1.20 | $0.1 | — | — | |
| $0.45 | $1.20 | $0.1 | N/A | N/A | |
| — | — | — | $N/A | $N/A | |
| $0.5 | $1.20 | $0.1 | — | — | |
| $0.5 | $1.20 | $0.1 | — | — | |
Cost Calculator
US Dollar ($)
Preset:
Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host Inkling Small, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 638 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance | Cloud | GPU | VRAM | Price | Cheapest region | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| p4de.24xlarge |  AWS | 8× A100 | 640 GB | $27.45/hr | ||
| Standard_ND96amsr_A100_v4 |  Azure | 8× NVIDIA A100 (80GB) | 640 GB | $32.77/hr | ||
| g7e.48xlarge | AWS | 8× RTX PRO Server 6000 | 768 GB | $33.14/hr | ||
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inkling Small | 1.0M | $0.450 | $1.20 | Current | |
| Inkling | — | 1.0M | $1.00 | $4.05 | Available |