Inkling
Inkling is a multimodal MoE model (975B total, 41B active, 256k context) reasoning over text, image, and audio inputs.
text + image + file → text · made by Thinking Machines Lab
Free
Offered at no charge, which is not the same as cheap: a free lane carries a rate limit and can be withdrawn. The prices above are what you pay when it is not available to you.
- OpenRouter
Sold by 26 ways
| Seller | Lane | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Thinking Machines Lab api | standard | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.17per Mtok cachedtinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai · read 2026-08-25 |
| Databricks cloud | standard | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.17per Mtok cached$1per Mtok cache writeraw.githubusercontent.com · read 2026-09-16 |
| Thinking Machines Lab api | training | $1.87per Mtok in$4.68per Mtok out$0.37per Mtok cachedtinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai · read 2026-08-25 |
| Thinking Machines Lab api | training-256k | $3.74per Mtok in$9.36per Mtok out$0.75per Mtok cachedtinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai · read 2026-08-25 |
| OpenRouter 6 ways | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.17per Mtok cached | |
| OpenRouter aggregator | free | $0per Mtok in$0per Mtok outopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-16 |
| OpenRouter aggregator | deepinfra/fp8 | $0.95per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.16per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-08-25 |
| OpenRouter aggregator | standard | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.17per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-08-30 |
| OpenRouter aggregator | baseten/fp8 | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.17per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-08-25 |
| OpenRouter aggregator | batch | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.17per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-08-24 |
| OpenRouter aggregator | together | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.17per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-08-25 |
| Nous Research 2 ways | $0.95per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.16per Mtok cached | |
| Nous Research aggregatornot on the seller's list today | resold | $0.76per Mtok in$3.24per Mtok out$0.13per Mtok cachedinference-api.nousresearch.com · read 2026-08-25 |
| Nous Research aggregatornot on the seller's list today | batch resold | $0.8per Mtok in$3.24per Mtok out$0.14per Mtok cachedinference-api.nousresearch.com · read 2026-08-25 |
| Nous Research aggregator | standard | $0.95per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.16per Mtok cachedinference-api.nousresearch.com · read 2026-09-12 |
| Nous Research aggregator | batch | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.17per Mtok cachedinference-api.nousresearch.com · read 2026-09-12 |
| DeepInfra aggregator | standard | $0.95per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok outapi.deepinfra.com · read 2026-08-25 |
| Hugging Face Inference Providers 4 ways | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out | |
| Hugging Face Inference Providers aggregator | deepinfra | $0.95per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok outrouter.huggingface.co · read 2026-08-25 |
| Hugging Face Inference Providers aggregator | standard | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok outmodels.dev · read 2026-09-16 |
| Hugging Face Inference Providers aggregator | baseten | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok outrouter.huggingface.co · read 2026-08-25 |
| Hugging Face Inference Providers aggregator | together | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok outrouter.huggingface.co · read 2026-08-25 |
| Baseten aggregator | standard | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$1per Mtok cachedbaseten.co · read 2026-08-25 |
| ElectronHub 0 ways | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out | |
| ElectronHub aggregatornot on the seller's list today | standard | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok outapi.electronhub.ai · read 2026-09-05 |
| Fireworks AI aggregator | standard | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.17per Mtok cachedmodels.dev · read 2026-09-16 |
| Together AI aggregator | standard | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.17per Mtok cacheddocs.together.ai · read 2026-08-24 |
| Vercel AI Gateway aggregator | standard | $1per Mtok in$4.05per Mtok out$0.17per Mtok cachedai-gateway.vercel.sh · read 2026-08-25 |
| Venice AI aggregator | standard | $1.25per Mtok in$5.06per Mtok out$0.21per Mtok cachedmodels.dev · read 2026-09-16 |
| Requesty aggregator | thinkingmachines | $1.87per Mtok in$4.68per Mtok out$0.37per Mtok cachedrouter.requesty.ai · read 2026-08-28 |
Measured 36 standings
About
Inkling — a text model from Thinking Machines Lab, sold by 12 companies from $0.95 in and $4.05 out per million tokens, placed 55th of 313 on GPQA Diamond.
It takes text, images and files and returns text, with a context window of 256,000 tokens. It was published in July 2026. Its sellers say it can reason step by step and call a tool. The catalogue files it under reasoning and agents. Twelve companies sell it. The cheapest is $0.95 in and $4.05 out per million tokens at DeepInfra. Beside the standard rate there are separately routed, batch and regional lanes. It has been measured on 36 boards, and stands best at 55th of 313 on GPQA Diamond.
Every current figure
- Maker
- Thinking Machines Lab
- Register
- model
- Takes
- text + image + file
- Returns
- text
- Context
- 256,000 tokens
- Published
- July 2026
- Parameters
- 952 billion
- Licence
- not read
- Sellers
- 12
- Price
- $0.95 in and $4.05 out per million tokens — DeepInfra
- Boards
- 36
- Best place
- 55th of 313 — GPQA Diamond
Known as 4 names
thinkingmachines/inklingthinkingmachines/inkling:batchthinkingmachines/Inkling:peft:262144thinkingmachines/Inkling:peft:262144:sampling-nvfp4