no end announced
free since Jul 30
works · Oct 710 parallel
Checked Oct 27 · catalogue
Thinking Machines
Inkling Small
FTI#28 of 72 with an FTI score
16
5 sources, 5 independent of the vendor: centre 16.
- 19.5 Epoch Capabilities Index (Epoch AI): 150.46 · third party
- 18 FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private (Epoch AI): 17.07 · third party
- 16.3 FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private (Epoch AI): 46.32 · third party
- 16.3 GPQA Diamond: 83.59 · third party
- 14.1 Humanity's Last Exam: 31.6 · third party
- 9.8 Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI): 6 · third party
- 24.9 OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI): 90 · third party
- 18.1 SWE-bench Verified: 81.2 · third party
- 7.6 SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI): 19.1 · third party
- 20.2 Terminal-Bench 2.1: 59.88 · third party
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Tested by us3 of 3channels measured
Where it's free now 3 channels tracked
Also free through programs whose allowance covers this model · amounts are shared with other models
Free periods one bar per channel; markers are events
free so farpast announced endofficial end aheadinferred end aheadno end announcedended / not answering● event · ◆ end announced · tap one to see it
What happened newest first · times link to the source
Fri, Oct 2311 days ago
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free is no longer in Kilo's model catalogue at the 2026-10-23 catalogue recheck (the 401-model list keeps 13 other :free ids); the same API holds thinkingmachines/inkling-small as paid-only, isFree false at $0.45/$1.00 per Mtoken, and mastra.ai's Kilo provider mirror lists the same id at those prices with no :free variant; first seen in the catalogue 2026-08-21, last listed 2026-10-06; it never answered one of our calls; no end date announced → end date Oct 23
Sun, Oct 1123 days ago
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Cline free promotion ended: API returns "Free model promotion ended"; models removed from Cline recommended models catalogue
Source: Cline API and CLI check
Tue, Oct 628 days ago
Listed free in the Kilo CLI; the first test call hit "Daily limit reached … Credits don't affect this cap"
Source: own check
listedApodex 1.1 Mini · Clineended Dots3-Note Preview · Clineended Gemma 4 26B A4B · Clineended Gemma 4 31B · Clineended Inkling Small · Clineended Inkling · Clineended
In the Cline CLI's free-model list; the test call returned no text or an upstream error (429). Qwen 3.8 27B (404) and Step 3.7 Flash (not found) are listed but gone
Source: Cline free models
Fri, Aug 21
First seen in Kilo's model catalogue (models.dev sync): Inkling Small
Source: models.dev commit
Thu, Jul 30
Listed on OpenRouter as thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free at $0 (OpenRouter's catalogue record date)
Source: OpenRouter model page
Channel details
Kilo Code ended✕ humans✕ agents
- Tested by us
- refusedshared cap
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the shared daily cap was already used up on our first call · checked Oct 6 - Model ID
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free- To start
- $0 · no account ":free" models answered in the Kilo CLI without signing in (our test, Oct 6); other models need a Kilo account; non-":free" models answer 401 without sign-in (PAID_MODEL_AUTH_REQUIRED, seen 2026-10-16)
- Use it
- API · OpenAI chat
- Free condition
- Kilo account; $0 per token on Kilo's model list; works without signing in (Kilo Gateway ":free" model)
- Limit (stated)
- not published
- Started
- Aug 21
- End
- ended 11 days ago Oct 23no end announced; last listed 2026-10-06, paid-only in Kilo's own catalogue on 2026-10-23
- Data policy
- unstated
- Channel type
- agent tool
- Checked
- Oct 23 · catalogue
Cline ended✕ humans✕ agents
- Tested by us
- often busy ×2
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checked Oct 7 · 2 checks - Model ID
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free- To start
- $0 · account Free models need a Cline account and run inside the Cline CLI or IDE extension
- Use it
- CLI onlyhuman only
- Free condition
- Cline account, inside the Cline CLI or IDE extension; not through the Cline API
- Limit (stated)
- not published
- Started
- not recorded; first seen 2026-10-06
- End
- ended 23 days ago Oct 11
- Data policy
- may train
- Channel type
- agent tool
- Checked
- Oct 11 · API call
OpenRouter live✓ humans✓ agents
- Tested by us
- works · Oct 710 parallelagent harnesses only
ⓘ
works through opencode; plain API calls get 403 · checked Oct 7 - Model ID
thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free- To start
- $0 · account Free plan: 50 requests/day
- Use it
- API · 3 formats
- Free condition
- OpenRouter account and API key; models marked :free cost $0
- Limit (stated)
- 50/day
ⓘ
1000/day once 10+ credits have been bought - Started
- Jul 30
- End
- no end announced free since Jul 30
- Data policy
- may train
- Channel type
- router
- Checked
- Oct 27 · catalogue