Is inkling-small deprecated?

Q: Is inkling-small deprecated?

Yes — deprecated. Retired 2026-09-14 — 2 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail.

DEPRECATED

Retired 2026-09-14 — 2 days ago. Requests to this identifier are expected to fail. Sources disagree on: context_tokens, input_price_per_mtok.

state=dead sunset=2026-09-14 days_remaining=-2 severity=critical sources=litellm,openrouter evidence_tier=catalog confirmed_by_endpoint=false documented_by_provider=false replacement=none corroborated=yes divergent_fields=context_tokens,input_price_per_mtok checked=2026-09-16 03:02Z

thinkingmachines/inkling-small

Vendor: thinkingmachines. Tracked by 2 of 5 sources.

What each source reports

**endpoint** = the provider's own machine-readable API, the strongest evidence. **provider docs** = the provider's own documentation, read by a model — first-party content, inferred reading. Unlabelled rows are third-party catalogs. Where sources disagree both values are shown rather than silently reconciled.
Source	ID	Context	Max out	In $/Mtok	Out $/Mtok	Sunset
litellm	together_ai/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small	524,288	—	$0.5	$1.2	2026-09-14
openrouter	thinkingmachines/inkling-small	1,048,576	262,144	$0.45	$1.2	—

Change history

Severity	Change	What	Detected
critical	deprecated	together_ai/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small: deprecation announced for 2026-09-14 — in 1 days	2026-09-13
critical	deprecated	together_ai/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small: retires 2026-09-14 (in 1 days)	2026-09-13
low	added	new model deepinfra/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small (524,288 ctx)	2026-08-28
info	repriced	together_ai/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small: cache_read_price_per_mtok n/a to $0.10/Mtok	2026-08-28
info	modified	[source artifact — 3 providers changed identically on the same day] together_ai/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small: capabilities gained prompt_caching	2026-08-28
low	added	new model together_ai/thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small (524,288 ctx)	2026-08-26
high	modified	thinkingmachines/inkling-small: capabilities lost structured_outputs	2026-08-23
low	modified	thinkingmachines/inkling-small: context_tokens raised 524,288 to 1,048,576	2026-08-20
low	modified	thinkingmachines/inkling-small: capabilities gained structured_outputs	2026-08-09
info	repriced	thinkingmachines/inkling-small: input_price_per_mtok $0.50/Mtok to $0.45/Mtok	2026-08-07