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Inkling
thinkingmachines·thinkingmachines/inkling·GA·Open weights·ling series·Video gen·NEW
Multimodal MoE reasoning model (975B total, 41B active) for text, image, and audio
At a glance
Official price$1.87 / $4.68 per 1M
Cache read $0.374 · Thinking Machines
Lowest paid$0.95 / $4.05
Deep Infra Cloud · 3.9× spread
1 more $0 channels
Context65,536
⚠ Providers report 65,536–1,048,576; the table below is authoritative
Output limit65,536
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ Temperature✓ Attachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImageAudioPDF
Knowledge cutoff—
Released / updated2026-07-15 / 2026-07-15
Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.1 · rep. tier xhigh
Intelligence42.3
Value25
Coding52.1
Agentic34.1
Output speed74 tok/s
TTFT1.82 s
Cost per task$0.3389
Value formulaIQ 42.3 ÷ min blended $1.725 = 25
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
Available at 21 providers19 with public prices · 1 free
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia | First-party | Free | — | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 16,384 | ||
| Deep Infra thinkingmachines/Inkling | Cloud | $0.95 | $4.05 | $0.16 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 1,048,576 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.95 | $4.05 | $0.16 | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| Eden AI deepinfra/thinkingmachines/Inkling | Gateway | $0.95 | $4.05 | $0.16 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 1,048,576 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.95 | $4.05 | $0.16 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $1.00 | $4.05 | $0.17 | — | 1,048,000 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Hugging Face thinkingmachines/Inkling | Cloud | $1.00 | $4.05 | — | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 1,048,576 | |
| Merge Gateway | Gateway | $1.00 | $4.05 | $0.17 | — | 1,048,000 ⚠ | 32,000 | |
| Together AI thinkingmachines/Inkling | Cloud | $1.00 | $4.05 | $0.17 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 131,072 | |
| Baseten | Cloud | $1.00 | $4.05 | — | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Thinking MachinesOfficial thinkingmachines/Inkling | First-party | $1.87 | $4.68 | $0.374 | — | 65,536 | 65,536 | |
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
1Deep Infra$297.70
2OpenRouter$297.70
3Eden AI$297.70
4Kilo Gateway$297.70
5NanoGPT$302.90
6Merge Gateway$302.90
17Thinking Machines · Official$428.48
1 more channels offer $0 (Nvidia); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Switch to Deep Infra to save $130.78/mo (31%)
Benchmark
No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.
Reasoning control
effort = noneeffort = minimaleffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = higheffort = maxeffort = xhighbudget_tokensToggle (on / off)
6 / 21 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
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Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync
Input listOutput listMin blended