Thinking Machines Lab

Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab's flagship open-weight multimodal MoE for reasoning, tool use, and fine-tuning. Available on Tinker (64K and 256K context), Together AI serverless (1M context), and other inference gateways.

ActiveReleased July 15, 2026Available from 5 providers
Tool callingCan invoke external tools and APIs (function calling) mid-response.Structured outputCan return JSON or schema-constrained responses instead of free text.ReasoningUses extended thinking / chain-of-thought for harder multi-step problems.Effort controlLets you dial thinking depth (low / medium / high) to trade cost for quality.Fine-tuningSupports training a custom variant on your own data (vendor fine-tune API or self-hosted open weights).

Source: Tinker models & pricing, Inkling model card, Inkling announcement, Inkling on Together AI

Price per 1M tokens
$1.87 in / $4.68 out
Context window262,144
Cache read$0.374 / M
Input
  • Text
  • Image
  • Audio
Output
  • Text
Priced across5 providers

Pricing

Every billing leg from the live catalog, in USD per 1M tokens.

Billing legStandardLong context
Input$1.87 / M$3.74 / M
Output$4.68 / M$9.36 / M
Cache read$0.374 / M$0.748 / M

Long-context rates apply above 65,536 input tokens.

Cost calculator

Billing-grade math over the rate card above, including the thinking tokens most estimates miss.

Hidden reasoning tokens bill as output. 1.0x = thinking off. Medium-effort reasoning typically lands near 3x; heavy reasoning runs 6x to 8x. Set it to match your workload.

Estimated monthly cost
$655
at current list prices
Fresh input$374
Cached input$0.00
Output incl. thinking$281
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Compare providers

The same model, priced across every platform that serves it. Lowest combined in/out rate is flagged.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
Thinking Machines
$1.87$4.68$0.374-First-party API
DeepInfraLowest
$0.95$4.05$0.16-via OpenRouter
Together AI
$1$4.05$0.17-Direct
Baseten
$1$4.05$0.17-via OpenRouter
Together AI
$1$4.05$0.17-via OpenRouter

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

EffectiveInput / OutputStatus
July 15, 2026 – August 12, 2026$1.87 / $4.68past
August 12, 2026 – August 21, 2026$0.95 / $4.05past
August 21, 2026$1.87 / $4.68current

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$0.58 / $1.44 in / out per 1M

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