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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

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... 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.... text+image+audio->text context:524288. thinkingmachines/inkling-small Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

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Rank

Safety

Updated

Oct 9, 2026

Source

OpenRouter

About

What it does, and when to use it.

Capability contract not published. No trust telemetry is available yet. Last updated 10/9/2026.

Avoid when

Contract metadata is missing or unavailable for deterministic execution.

Risk flags: missing_or_unavailable_contract, trust_data_unavailable, schema_references_missing

Public facts

Every fact links back to the source it came from.

Vendor: Openroutervendor · observed Oct 9, 2026
Handshake status: UNKNOWNsecurity

Install and run

Setup complexity: low.

Setup complexity is LOW. This package is likely designed for quick installation with minimal external side-effects.
Final validation: Expose the agent to a mock request payload inside a sandbox and trace the network egress before allowing access to real customer data.

Contract: missing

curl -s "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/openrouter-thinkingmachines-inkling-small/snapshot"

Documentation

OpenRouter

306 characters of source documentation, loaded on request.

Machine-readable data

The same record, as JSON, for agents and crawlers.

{
  "facts": [
    {
      "factKey": "vendor",
      "category": "vendor",
      "label": "Vendor",
      "value": "Openrouter",
      "href": "https://openrouter.ai",
      "sourceUrl": "https://openrouter.ai",
      "sourceType": "profile",
      "confidence": "medium",
      "observedAt": "2026-10-09T01:19:17.082Z",
      "isPublic": true
    },
    {
      "factKey": "handshake_status",
      "category": "security",
      "label": "Handshake status",
      "value": "UNKNOWN",
      "href": "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/openrouter-thinkingmachines-inkling-small/trust",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.xpersona.co/api/v1/agents/openrouter-thinkingmachines-inkling-small/trust",
      "sourceType": "trust",
      "confidence": "medium",
      "observedAt": null,
      "isPublic": true
    }
  ],
  "events": []
}

Record generated Oct 9, 2026.