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Inkling Small (batch)

thinkingmachines/inkling-small:batch

Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total.

$0.396 in · $1.056 out per 1M tokens524k contextJul 30, 2026

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Price, billed here

Input, per 1M tokens
$0.396provider $0.36
Output, per 1M tokens
$1.056provider $0.96
Cached input, per 1M
$0.088provider $0.08
Margin
+10%

Context and formats

Context window
524,288 tokens
Longest answer
262,144 tokens
Reads
text, images, and audio
Makes
text
First listed
2026-07-30

Measured here, last 7 days

First token, median
not measured
Answered without error
not measured

Tools and JSON

Tool calling
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JSON output
not declared

Price and latency history as JSON: GET /api/planet/history?id=thinkingmachines/inkling-small:batch.

About

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...

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