{"slug": "inkling-small-from-thinking-machines-is-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "title": "Inkling Small from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway", "summary": "Inkling Small from Thinking Machines is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway, offering performance comparable to the larger Inkling model at about a quarter of the size with lower compute per task. The model supports reasoning over audio and images, controllable thinking effort, and programmatic visual inspection, and is compatible with Zero Data Retention for privacy.", "body_md": "[Inkling Small](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/inkling-small) from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway.\n\nInkling Small reaches performance comparable to the larger Inkling model at about a quarter of the size, using much less compute per task. It is a broad generalist with native reasoning over audio and images, and it holds up well on reasoning, agentic coding, and tool use. Controllable thinking effort lets you trade quality against cost and latency, from minimal to maximum reasoning.\n\nFor visual tasks, it can crop, zoom, and inspect images programmatically, which helps on documents and charts where the relevant detail is small.\n\nTo use Inkling, set `model`\n\nto `thinkingmachines/inkling-small`\n\nin the [AI SDK](https://ai-sdk.dev/):\n\nInkling-Small is compatible with [Zero Data Retention](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/security-and-compliance/zdr). Turn it on team-wide from the dashboard, or per request with `zeroDataRetention: true`\n\n, and AI Gateway routes only to providers that delete prompts and responses after each request.\n\nInkling-Small is also a cost-efficient choice for coding and tool-use workflows. Run `vercel ai-gateway coding-agents setup`\n\nto connect your coding agents to AI Gateway, then select `thinkingmachines/inkling-small`\n\nin the agent's model configuration. See the [coding agents guide](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/coding-agents).\n\nAI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and does not charge a platform fee on inference, including on [Bring Your Own Key](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/authentication-and-byok/byok) (BYOK) requests. Try Inkling Small in the [model playground](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/inkling-small).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/inkling-small-from-thinking-machines-is-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "canonical_source": "https://vercel.com/changelog/inkling-small-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "published_at": "2026-07-30 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-30 19:41:51.679396+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Thinking Machines", "Vercel", "AI Gateway", "Inkling Small", "AI SDK", "Zero Data Retention"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/inkling-small-from-thinking-machines-is-now-available-on-ai-gateway", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/inkling-small-from-thinking-machines-is-now-available-on-ai-gateway.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/inkling-small-from-thinking-machines-is-now-available-on-ai-gateway.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/inkling-small-from-thinking-machines-is-now-available-on-ai-gateway.jsonld"}}