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 the Inkling family and is suited for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, instruction following, and multilingual conversation.

Speech-to-textThinkingmachines262k tokensFree

thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free

Context
262k tokens
Completion cap
262,144
Tools
Yes
JSON
No
Released
2026-07-30

Call it from Geek Hub

Same OpenAI SDK. Change the base URL and the model id.

curl https://api.geekhub.mx/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GEEKHUB_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hola"}]
  }'
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Frequently asked questions

What is 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 the Inkling family and is suited for reasoning, coding, agentic workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, instruction following, and multilingual conversation. Inkling Small (free) runs on the Geek Hub API (OpenAI-compatible). Model id: thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free.
Is Inkling Small (free) free?
Yes. The listed price is zero — you are not charged for prompt or completion tokens. Free endpoints are rate limited.
What is the context length of Inkling Small (free)?
Inkling Small (free) has a 262k tokens context window. It supports up to 262,144 completion tokens.
When was Inkling Small (free) released?
Inkling Small (free) was released on 2026-07-30.

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