Thinking Machines Lab

Inkling 2 Small

A multimodal reasoning model for agentic coding, visual creation, knowledge work, tool use, and customizable fine-tuning.

Active
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: https://thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/pricing/, https://thinkingmachines.ai/model-card/inkling-2-small/, https://openrouter.ai/thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small%3Afree, https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/models/models_and_pricing/, https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small/

Price per 1M tokens
$0.3 in / $1 out
Context window1,048,576
Max output131,072
Cache read$0.03 / M
Input
  • Text
  • Image
Output
  • Text

Pricing

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

Billing legRate
Input$0.3 / M
Output$1 / M
Cache read$0.03 / M

Cost calculator

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Estimated monthly cost
$80.00
at current list prices
Fresh input$60.00
Cached input$0.00
Output$20.00
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Provider

Where this model runs, and what it charges.

PlatformInput / MOutput / MCache read / MBatchAccess
Thinking Machines
$0.3$1$0.03-First-party API

Price history

Has this model gotten cheaper or more expensive?

No changePriced at $0.3 / $1 per 1M since November 6, 2026.

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