import requests r = requests.post( "https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + AIMLAPI_KEY}, json={ "model": "thinkingmachines/inkling-small", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }, ) print(r.json())
const r = await fetch("https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions", { method: "POST", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AIMLAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json", }, body: JSON.stringify({ "model": "thinkingmachines/inkling-small", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" } ] }), }); console.log(await r.json());
curl -X POST https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $AIMLAPI_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"model":"thinkingmachines/inkling-small","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
OpenAI-compatible — swap the base URL and it works with your existing SDK.
| Type | Price |
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| Input | |
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| Cached input |
Cached input billed at $0.1508 / 1M tokens.
| Benchmark | Score | What it measures | Source | Retrieved |
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| Intelligence | 26.1 | Composite score across standardised reasoning, knowledge and problem-solving evaluations, measured independently by Artificial Analysis | Source | September 12, 2026 |
| Coding | 52.9 | Composite score across standardised coding evaluations, measured independently by Artificial Analysis | Source | September 12, 2026 |
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Best for |
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Inkling Small This page | Efficient open-weight multimodal reasoning | |||
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| Reasoning + agents |
Inkling Small has a 524,288 tokens context window and can return up to 262,144 tokens.
Inkling Small takes image, text as input and returns text.
Use thinkingmachines/inkling-small as the model id. Requests go to https://api.aimlapi.com/v1/chat/completions.
Inkling Small became available on July 30, 2026.
Inkling Small is priced at input $0.797732 / 1M tokens, output $1.980576 / 1M tokens, cached input $0.1595464 / 1M tokens.
Yes, Inkling Small can stream responses as they are generated.
Yes, Inkling Small accepts image input alongside text.
Inkling Small was built by Thinking Machines.