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Inkling 2 Small

thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small

Inkling 2 Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 17B active parameters out of 594B total.

$0.33 in · $1.10 out per 1M tokens1M contextNov 9, 2026

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Input, per 1M tokens
$0.33provider $0.30
Output, per 1M tokens
$1.10provider $1.00
Cached input, per 1M
$0.033provider $0.03
Margin
+10%

Context and formats

Context window
1,048,576 tokens
Longest answer
943,718 tokens
Reads
text and images
Makes
text
First listed
2026-11-09

Measured here, last 7 days

First token, median
not measured
Answered without error
not measured

Tools and JSON

Tool calling
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JSON output
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Price and latency history as JSON: GET /api/planet/history?id=thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small.

About

Inkling 2 Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 17B active parameters out of 594B total. It is the first model in the second...

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