Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)

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...

Modalities

In / Out Price

$0 / $0 per 1M

Context

Released

Jul 30, 2026

Knowledge Cutoff

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API

Reroute speaks the OpenAI Chat Completions format. Point any OpenAI SDK at https://reroute.wtf/api/v1 and use thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free as the model.

You need an API key

Keys start with sk-rr-v1- and are shown once.

Create API key

curl https://reroute.wtf/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $REROUTE_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "model": "thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free",
  "messages": [
    { "role": "user", "content": "What is the meaning of life?" }
  ]
}'

Streaming

Set stream: true to receive server-sent events. The final chunk carries usage and cost.

curl -N https://reroute.wtf/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $REROUTE_API_KEY" \
  -d '{ "model": "thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free", "stream": true,
        "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Count to five" }] }'