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inkling-256k
thinkingmachines·thinkingmachines/inkling-256k·GA·Closed·ling series·Video gen·NEW
Inkling 256K is the extended context variant of Inkling, a large MoE hybrid reasoning model from Thinking Machines with audio and vision input support and a 256K context window.
At a glance
Official price$3.74 / $9.36 per 1M
Cache read $0.748 · Thinking Machines
Lowest paid$1.50 / $3.74
Requesty Gateway · 2.5× spread
Context262,144
Output limit262,144
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool useStructured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImage
Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-07-16 / 2026-07-16
Quality & performance
Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.
Available at 2 providers2 with public prices
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Requesty | Gateway | $1.50 | $3.74 | $0.299 | — | 262,144 | 32,768 | |
| Thinking MachinesOfficial thinkingmachines/Inkling:peft:262144 | First-party | $3.74 | $9.36 | $0.748 | — | 262,144 | 262,144 |
Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.
Your usage cost
1Requesty$342.78
2Thinking Machines · Official$856.96
Switch to Requesty to save $514.18/mo (60%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended