# Bad Influence story: Thinking Machines offers Inkling 2 Small free on OpenRouter for limited time

Active · 2 articles · 2 sources · First reported 11-09 17:38. Times are ET.
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Latest update (11-09 17:41): Thinking Machines offers Inkling 2 Small free on OpenRouter for a limited time

Overview: Thinking Machines makes its Inkling 2 Small model free on OpenRouter for a limited time, according to a post from the company's account on X. The company says the free access is meant to improve its model, and a post by Soumith Chintala says the same. The model pairs vision with agentic coding and can use visual feedback to build and refine websites, games and 3D designs, according to OpenRouter's post. Users can run it at $0 inside agentic harnesses such as Claude Code, Codex and Hermes Agent. The posts do not give an end date or a usage limit for the free access.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-09 17:41 · Thinking Machines · [Thinking Machines offers Inkling 2 Small free on OpenRouter for a limited time](https://badinfluence.news/items/rkma2ng6oolendkqpp4xpwmvm)
2. 11-09 17:38 · Soumith Chintala · [Thinking Machines makes Inkling 2 Small free on OpenRouter](https://badinfluence.news/items/b2tt3bpy87yi1v6jnhwym5ui9)

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- Thinking Machines offers Inkling 2 Small free for a limited time on OpenCode and OpenRouter: https://badinfluence.news/api/v1/agent/stories/332dfd24-03ab-47d8-aad2-1f5f21f7e35c
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