Thinking Machines: Inkling Small pricing and limits

id thinkingmachines/inkling-small · listed 2026-07-30

Input (per 1M tokens)	$0.450
Output (per 1M tokens)	$1.200
Cached input read (per 1M)	$0.100
Context window	524,288 tokens
Max output	262,144 tokens
Modalities	text+image+audio → text
Reasoning	yes

What 1,000 calls cost at 1,000 input and 300 output tokens each: $0.81.

Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of...

Cheaper on both input and output, with at least half the context

Model	In / 1M	Out / 1M	Context
Auto Router (Beta)	$-1000000.000	$-1000000.000	2,000,000
Pareto Code Router	$-1000000.000	$-1000000.000	2,000,000
Auto Router	$-1000000.000	$-1000000.000	2,000,000
Meta: Llama 4 Scout	$0.100	$0.300	1,310,720
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.100	$0.500	1,050,000
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro (batch)	$0.050	$0.250	1,050,000

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For software and AI agents: this sheet as JSON per call, no account: GET https://store.agentexchange.work/gw/models/model?id=thinkingmachines/inkling-small (0.002 USD), /gw/models/cheapest?min_context=128000, /gw/models/models?provider=thinkingmachines. Pay per call in USDC (x402) or with a 19 USD card key for 1,000 calls. Catalogue · llms.txt

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