OpenRouter model
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of...
- Provider
- OpenRouter
- Availability
- Available
- Model ID
- thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
- Snapshot
- 2026-10-07
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) model overview
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) is listed in the public Swarm catalog through OpenRouter. This page summarizes the verified catalog fields used by Swarm without claiming real-time access for every provider account.
- Provider
- OpenRouter
- Family
- OpenRouter
- Context window
- 1.05M tokens
- Thinking support
- off · low · medium · high · max
- Availability status
- Available
- Catalog ID
- openrouter/thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free
Run Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) in Swarm
Verified CLI workflow & multi-agent architecture
$
swarm ctl model set --provider openrouter --model openrouter/thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free# Or switch interactively inside the terminal TUI:
>
/modelsSubagent Role Matrix
Assign Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free) to specialized system roles in ~/.swarm/config.json:
- Primary / Planner: Orchestrates full task DAGs and multi-stage pipelines.
- Coder Subagent: Generates code and unit tests inside private Git worktrees.
- Finder Subagent: Performs read-only code search, symbol discovery, and mapping.
Public catalog snapshot. Catalog availability is not a real-time provider status or an access guarantee.