Inkling Small

The direct-answer version of Thinking Machines' 276B-parameter open-weights multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with 12B active parameters. It accepts text and images, and is designed for coding, tool use, instruction following, and general conversational work.

  • Vision
  • Audio Input
  • Tool Calling

Added Jul 31, 2026

Model weights

Pricing

Auto routing · per 1M tokens
Input
$0.45
Output
$1.20
Cache read
$0.100
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Specifications

Context window
524.3K
Max output
32.8K
Parameters
276B / 12B
Total / active
Avg output (7d)
346 tokens
Longer than 30% of models

Benchmarks

Sourced from Artificial Analysis.

Intelligence Index

25.7

Better than 79% of models compared

Coding Index

52.9

Better than 63% of models compared

Agentic Index

23.5

Better than 63% of models compared

Agentic work

AutomationBench-AA

Workflow automation with guardrail penalties

4.8%

Better than 27% of models compared

AA-Briefcase

Agentic knowledge work (Elo)

911 Elo

Better than 42% of models compared

GDPval-AA v2

Economically valuable tasks (Elo)

1124 Elo

Better than 56% of models compared

Document reasoning

GDP.pdf

Professional PDF reasoning: all-pass rate

11.2%

Better than 45% of models compared

AA-LCR v1.1

Long context reasoning with updated grading

75.7%

Better than 74% of models compared

Reasoning

HLE

Humanity's Last Exam

33.3%

Better than 79% of models compared

CritPt

Research-level physics reasoning

8.3%

Coding

Terminal-Bench v4.0

Practical coding and terminal tasks

1.0%

Better than 42% of models compared

SciCode

Python programming for scientific computing

49.7%

Better than 51% of models compared

Knowledge

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

Proportion of correctly answered questions

33.2%

AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate

Rate of incorrect answers among non-correct responses

63.0%

Legacy benchmarks

GPQA Diamond (legacy)

Graduate-level scientific reasoning

89.5%

Better than 87% of models compared

AA-LCR (unversioned / legacy)

Long context reasoning evaluation

75.7%

Better than 73% of models compared

GDPval-AA (unversioned / legacy)

Economically valuable tasks

31.2%

Last updated Oct 15, 2026

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