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Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning, coding, agentic and tool-use systems,...
How much does Thinking Machines: Inkling cost for a real workload?
At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month, Thinking Machines: Inkling costs about $18.1 ($10 input + $8.1 output). Try your own volumes in the cost calculator.
What are cheaper alternatives to Thinking Machines: Inkling?
- OpenAI: o3 (batch) — $1 in / $4 out per 1M
- OpenAI: GPT-4.1 (batch) — $1 in / $4 out per 1M
- Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash — $0.825 in / $4.125 out per 1M
- Sakana: Sakana Namazu — $0.95 in / $4 out per 1M
- Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash — $0.75 in / $3.75 out per 1M
- Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash — $0.75 in / $3.75 out per 1M
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Thinking Machines: Inkling cost?
Thinking Machines: Inkling costs $1 per 1M input tokens and $4.05 per 1M output tokens (list price, snapshot October 21, 2026). At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month that is about $18.1.
What is the context window of Thinking Machines: Inkling?
Thinking Machines: Inkling has a context window of 524,288 tokens and can return up to 471,859 output tokens per response.
What are cheaper alternatives to Thinking Machines: Inkling?
Cheaper models include OpenAI: o3 (batch) ($1 in / $4 out), OpenAI: GPT-4.1 (batch) ($1 in / $4 out), Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash ($0.825 in / $4.125 out). See the full list on this page.
Is Thinking Machines: Inkling free to use?
No. Thinking Machines: Inkling is a paid model at $1 input / $4.05 output per 1M tokens. 20 free models are listed on the free models page.
Provider: thinkingmachines · Model ID: thinkingmachines/inkling · Modality: text+image+audio->text · Price snapshot October 21, 2026, refreshed daily. How we collect prices