Inkling Small from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway

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.

Inkling Small https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models/inkling-small from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway. Inkling 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. For visual tasks, it can crop, zoom, and inspect images programmatically, which helps on documents and charts where the relevant detail is small. To use Inkling, set model to thinkingmachines/inkling-small in the AI SDK https://ai-sdk.dev/ : Inkling-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 , and AI Gateway routes only to providers that delete prompts and responses after each request. Inkling-Small is also a cost-efficient choice for coding and tool-use workflows. Run vercel ai-gateway coding-agents setup to connect your coding agents to AI Gateway, then select thinkingmachines/inkling-small in the agent's model configuration. See the coding agents guide https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/coding-agents . AI 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 .