Thinking Machines Lab · Free API
Inkling Small (OpenRouter)
Free “:free” variant on OpenRouter – rate-limited, no charge.
Free API Available 🛠 Tool calling 1M 🕒 Verified on 2026-10-22
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total
Free conditions
- Free conditions
- Free “:free” variant on OpenRouter – rate-limited, no charge.
- Free until
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- Rate limits
- 20 requests/min; 50 requests/day if you have bought fewer than 10 credits, 1,000/day after buying at least 10 (shared across all :free models).
- Sign-up / login
- Required
- Real-name verification
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- Credit card
- Not required
- Region
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- Data use
- —
Specs
- Provider
- Thinking Machines Lab
- Platform
- OpenRouter
- Type
- Free API
- Modalities
- Text · Vision · Audio
- Parameters
- —
- Context length
- 1M (1,048,576 tokens)
- License
- —
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Released
- 2026-07-30
How to access
- API base URL
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1- Model ID
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free- Hugging Face
- https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small
- Platform page
- https://openrouter.ai/thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
Official sources
- OpenRouter models API https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models
- OpenRouter – Inkling Small https://openrouter.ai/thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
- OpenRouter API – Limits https://openrouter.ai/docs/api_reference/limits
🕒 Verified on 2026-10-22 · Free terms change often. Always confirm limits, data-use policy and regional availability on the official page before relying on a free tier.
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