# Inkling

api.venice.ai deprecated the model Inkling without giving a shutdown date yet.

api.venice.ai has deprecated the Inkling model without publishing a specific shutdown date. Requests specifying this model will eventually fail. The change applies across calls targeting model Inkling.

## What to use instead

Use Muse Spark Open instead.

- API: api.venice.ai (api.venice.ai)
- Model: Inkling
- Released: July 15, 2026 (models.dev)
- Kind: Model retirement
- Takes effect: no date given yet
- Calls after that day: fail
- Calls it hits: `model Inkling`
- Source: [Changelog](https://venice.ai/changelog)
- Verified: November 2, 2026, against api.venice.ai's own pages
- Page: https://www.okapi.bot/models/api-venice-ai/inkling/

## api.venice.ai's words

> Inkling→replaced by [Muse Spark Open](https://basehub.venice.ai/models/muse-spark-open)

Okapi finds the calls this change hits in your repo and opens the pull request with the fix: https://github.com/apps/okapi-agent