MODELS / THINKINGMACHINES

Inkling Small

Inkling-Small is a lighter-weight model with 12B active parameters, trained with a similar recipe, to Inkling that achieves strong performance with even lower cost and latency.

TEXTREASONINGREASONINGTOOL-USEVISIONFILE-INPUTIMPLICIT-CACHING
1M
CONTEXT WINDOW
1M
MAX OUTPUT TOKENS
$0.5 / 1M tokens
INPUT PRICE
$1.20 / 1M tokens
OUTPUT PRICE
QUICKSTART

Call it in one request.

OpenAI-compatible — change the base URL, and the setup is complete.

SHELL
curl https://enterprise.blackbox.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BLACKBOX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "blackboxai/thinkingmachines/inkling-small",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }],
    "stream": true
  }'
INPUT: text, image, fileOUTPUT: textRELEASED: 2026-07-30
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256K context · $1 / 1M tokens input · $4.05 / 1M tokens output