Inkling 2 Small: Benchmarks, Pricing & Context Window
Inkling 2 Small is a language model from Thinking Machines Lab, released in November 2026, with multimodal input, a 256K-token context window, and pricing from $0.300/M input, $0.030/M cached input, $1.00/M output.
Inkling 2 Small is Thinking Machines Lab's second-generation MoE multimodal model (594B total / 17B active parameters), released 2026-11-05. It accepts text and image inputs (no audio) and generates text, with variable thinking effort. The
Inkling 2 Small benchmarks
Capability tiers
Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.
Real tasks performance
High-confidence performance for Inkling 2 Small across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.
Performance by conversation depth
How Inkling 2 Small holds up as conversations get longer.
Quality Tracker
Inkling 2 Small Performance Across Datasets
Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts
llm-stats.com - Sun Nov 08 2026Inkling 2 Small pricing
Providers
Inkling 2 Small starts at $0.300 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens via Thinking Machines Lab. Reused prompt prefixes cost $0.0300 per million cached input tokens.
| Provider | Input $/M | Cached input $/M | Output $/M | Context in / out | TTFT p95 s | Output p5 c/s | Modalities in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Thinking Machines Lab | $0.300 | $0.0300 | $1.00 | 256.0K/— | — | — | / |
Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.
Inkling 2 Small context window
Input and output token limits for Inkling 2 Small, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.
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Inkling 2 Small latency
Inkling 2 Small time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live model usage over the trailing 7 days.
Inkling 2 Small examples
Recent arena outputs from Inkling 2 Small, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.
Inkling 2 Small license
Inkling 2 Small is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has 594.0B parameters.
- License
- Proprietary
- Hosted access
- Parameters
- 594.0B
Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply
Inkling 2 Small resources
Official sources for Inkling 2 Small: provider documentation, official playground, official launch post, source repository.
Inkling 2 Small vs other models
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Models ranked just above and below Inkling 2 Small by LLM Stats score.
FAQ
Common questions about Inkling 2 Small.