# Thinkingmachines: Inkling 2 Small (free)

- Model id: `thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small:free`
- Served by: -
- List price per 1M tokens, input / output, from: -, with 0% platform fee. A request is billed at the list price of the host that served it.
- Context: 1.05M, max output 131K
- Prices read 2026-11-15 09:33 UTC
- Page: https://plaingateway.com/models/thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small%3Afree

Inkling 2 Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 17B active parameters out of 594B total. It is the first model in the second...

## Hosts

| Host | Endpoint | In / out /M | Cache read /M | Context | Served |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thinkingmachines | `thinkingmachines/nvfp4` | free | - | 1.05M | no |

## First request

```sh
curl https://api.plaingateway.com/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PLAINGATEWAY_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small:free", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Say hello in five words."}]}'
```

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