Inkling Small pricing & price history
Inkling Small by Thinkingmachines costs $0.45 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, with a 524K token context window.
Price history
No price changes since tracking began on 2026-09-24. We check every 10 minutes.
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About Inkling Small
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of...
FAQ
How much does Inkling Small cost?
Inkling Small by Thinkingmachines costs $0.45 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, with a 524K token context window. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0015.
What is the context window of Inkling Small?
Inkling Small supports up to 524,288 tokens of context and up to 262,144 output tokens per request.
Has Inkling Small’s price changed?
No price changes recorded since ModelBank started tracking it on 2026-09-24.
Is Inkling Small being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for Inkling Small as of 2026-11-12.
What are cheaper alternatives to Inkling Small?
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).