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Inkling-Small by Thinking Machines Lab is live

Inkling-Small by Thinking Machines Lab is now live in Command Code. $0.50/M input, 1.20/M output tokens

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Jul 30, 2026

Inkling-Small by Thinking Machines Lab is now live in Command Code.

  • $0.50/M input, 1.20/M output tokens
  • Light-weight model with 12B params
  • Multimodal: text, image, audio

Available on all plans

1cmd --update (to latest) 2cmd --model thinkingmachines/inkling-small

Inkling Small at a glance

Lightweight MoE reasoning at lower cost and latency.

SpecInkling Small
Model IDthinkingmachines/inkling-small
Context window1M tokens
ReleasedJuly 30, 2026
Intelligence Index27.8
Coding Index52.9
Input$0.50 per 1M tokens
Output$1.20 per 1M tokens
Cache read$0.10 per 1M tokens
Effective input in an agent loop$0.22 per 1M tokens
PlansGo and above

Specs, pricing and plans are from the Inkling Small model page as of September 28, 2026, including any deal running that day, so they can differ from the launch pricing above. Intelligence and Coding Index scores are from Artificial Analysis.

Use Inkling Small

1cmd --model thinkingmachines/inkling-small

Or type /model in a session and pick it. You can switch mid-session without losing context.

What real work costs on Inkling Small

TaskTokens (in · out)Cost
Quick lookup / one-liner8K · 1K$0.0023
Review a 500-line PR60K · 4K$0.02
Fix a bug (agent loop)180K · 12K$0.05
Refactor a module320K · 20K$0.09
Full-repo agent run900K · 45K$0.22

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