Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) API
About
Build advanced reasoning agents with Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free), a specialized AI model optimized for complex logic and chain-of-thought tasks. This model delivers available completely free of charge, native tool calling support, open weights architecture. Access Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) via the Kilo Gateway API with up to 262K output tokens.
Capabilities
Input Modalities
textimageaudio
Output Modalities
text
Limits
Context Window
1.0M
Tokens
Input Limit
1.0M
Tokens
Max Output
262K
Tokens
Pricing
Standard (per 1M tokens)
Input
Free
Output
Free
Frequently Asked Questions
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) by Kilo Gateway costs Free per 1M input tokens and Free per 1M output tokens.
Model Details
ID
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
Provider
Kilo GatewayFamily
ling
Release Date
Jul 30, 2026
Knowledge Cutoff
N/A
API Integration
NPM Package
@ai-sdk/openai-compatible
Environment Variables
KILO_API_KEY
API Base URL
https://api.kilo.ai/api/gateway