Question 1

What is Inkling Small?

Accepted Answer

Inkling Small is a model from Thinking Machines, released on Jul 30, 2026. 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...

Question 2

How much does Inkling Small cost?

Accepted Answer

On the Respan gateway, input starts at $0.45 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter, and output starts at $1.20 per 1M tokens on every provider, after gateway discounts.

Question 3

Which providers serve Inkling Small on Respan?

Accepted Answer

2 providers serve Inkling Small: OpenRouter and DeepInfra.

Question 4

What is Inkling Small's context window?

Accepted Answer

Inkling Small accepts up to 524K tokens of context on its largest provider route.

Question 5

How do I use Inkling Small with the Respan gateway?

Accepted Answer

Point any OpenAI-compatible SDK at https://api.respan.ai/api/ with your Respan API key and set the model to "inkling-small". To set it up with a coding agent, copy the agent setup prompt at the top of this page.

Question 6

How fast is Inkling Small?

Accepted Answer

Over the last 30 days of requests through the Respan gateway, the fastest provider was OpenRouter at 38 tokens per second, and the lowest response latency was 0.1 seconds on OpenRouter. Speed varies with request size and provider.

Question 7

Where does Inkling Small rank on the Respan Index?

Accepted Answer

Inkling Small scores 28.1 out of 100 on the Respan Index v1.1, ranking #69 of 138 models. By category: Coding 6.9, Agents 44.6, Reasoning 23.4, Knowledge & language 19.1, and Human preference 50.0. The Respan Index combines independent and lab-reported benchmark results into one score, using benchmark data collected by llmmetric.com.

Question 8

How does Inkling Small score on benchmarks?

Accepted Answer

Inkling Small has 29 published benchmark scores, including SWE-bench Verified 80.2%, MCP Atlas (all) 79.2%, and GPQA Diamond 88.5%. Each score links to where it was published; the data is collected by llmmetric.com.

Provider	Context	Input	Output	Capabilities
OpenRouter`openrouter/thinkingmachines/inkling-small`	524K	$0.45/M	$1.20/M
DeepInfra`deepinfra/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small`	524K	$0.45/M	$1.20/M

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Knowledge3

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