Inkling pricing & price history
Inkling by Thinkingmachines costs $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $4.05 per 1M output tokens, with a 524K token context window.
Price history
| Date | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | $0.95 → $1.00 +5% | $4.05 → $4.05 |
| 2026-10-02 | $1.00 → $0.95 -5% | $4.05 → $4.05 |
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About Inkling
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,...
FAQ
How much does Inkling cost?
Inkling by Thinkingmachines costs $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $4.05 per 1M output tokens, with a 524K token context window. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.004.
What is the context window of Inkling?
Inkling supports up to 524,288 tokens of context and up to 471,859 output tokens per request.
Has Inkling’s price changed?
Yes. ModelBank recorded 2 price changes; the latest on 2026-10-07.
Is Inkling being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for Inkling as of 2026-11-12.
What are cheaper alternatives to Inkling?
Cheaper options include GLM 5.3 Flash ($0.0399/$0.0784), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ($0.098/$0.29), MiMo-V2.6-Flash ($0.14/$0.28), Claude Haiku 5.5 ($0.10/$0.50).