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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)

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Output
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Oct 27, 2026, 9:14 PM UTC

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...

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openrouter/thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
curl https://staging.freemodel.io/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FREEMODEL_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "openrouter/thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'
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