Multimodal MoE reasoning model (975B total, 41B active) for text, image, and audio
Inkling by thinkingmachines is offered by 21 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 20 of them. Its official list price is $1.87 per 1M input tokens and $4.68 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is Deep Infra at $0.95 / $4.05 per 1M, about 3.9× below the list price. It also has 1 free ($0) channel; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.
Artificial Analysis rates it 25 on the Intelligence Index, with 52.1 for coding and 22.5 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $1.73 per 1M, that is roughly 14 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 180 tokens per second, with 1.89s to the first token.
The context window is 65,536 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 65,536 to 1,048,576, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text, Image, Audio, and PDF. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia | Cloud | Free | — | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 16,384 | deprecated | |
| Deep Infra thinkingmachines/Inkling | Cloud | $0.95 | $4.05 | $0.16 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | — | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.95 | $4.05 | $0.16 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.95 | $4.05 | $0.16 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | 262,144 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.95 | $4.05 | $0.16 | — | 524,288 ⚠ | — | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $1.00 | $4.05 | $0.17 | — | 1,048,000 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Baseten | Cloud | $1.00 | $4.05 | — | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 32,768 | |
| Hugging Face thinkingmachines/Inkling | Cloud | $1.00 | $4.05 | — | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 1,048,576 | |
| Vercel AI Gateway | Cloud | $1.00 | $4.05 | $0.17 | — | 256,000 ⚠ | 256,000 | |
| Fireworks AI | Cloud | $1.00 | $4.05 | $0.17 | — | 1,048,576 ⚠ | 1,048,576 | |
| Thinking MachinesOfficial thinkingmachines/Inkling | First-party | $1.87 | $4.68 | $0.37 | — | 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.
Interleaved thinking (reasoning between tool calls) is declared by 2 of 21 providers.
6 / 21 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).
| Mode | Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| priority | Fireworks AI | $1.00 | $4.05 | $0.17 | — |
1 more channels offer $0 (Nvidia); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.
Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.