# Inkling Small from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway By Steven Van · 2026-07-30 Inkling Small from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway. [Vercel]()'s [AI Gateway]() now offers Inkling Small from Thinking Machines. The model reaches performance comparable to the larger Inkling model at about a quarter of the size, using much less compute per task. It's a generalist with native reasoning over audio and images, and holds up on reasoning, agentic coding, and tool use. - Thinking effort is controllable, from minimal to maximum, to trade quality against cost and latency. - For visual tasks it can crop, zoom, and inspect images programmatically, useful for documents and charts where the relevant detail is small. - It's used by setting the model to **thinkingmachines/inkling-small** in the AI SDK. - It supports Zero Data Retention, turned on team-wide from the dashboard or per request with **zeroDataRetention: true**, which routes requests only to providers that delete prompts and responses after each request. - Coding agents can be connected to it by running **vercel ai-gateway coding-agents setup** and selecting thinkingmachines/inkling-small in the agent's model configuration. AI Gateway reflects provider pricing with no markup and charges no platform fee on inference, including on Bring Your Own Key requests. [![]()]() ![Vercel]() Vercel The platform for frontend developers — deploy, preview, and scale web apps and AI agents with zero config. [View Vercel →]() Sources [Original source]() [Read Inkling Small from Thinking Machines is now available on AI Gateway on Creators Toolbox]() --- Canonical source: https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/vercel-inkling-small-from-thinking-machines-is-now-available-on-ai-gateway