Thinking Machines: Inkling
thinkingmachines/inkling- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Maximum output
- 471,859 tokens
- Input price
- $1 per 1M tokens
- Output price
- $4.05 per 1M tokens
- Modalities
- text, image, audio, audio-in
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Official description
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,...
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Where this model fits
thinkingmachines/inkling is part of the OpenRouter API catalog. Its documented modalities are text, image, audio, audio-in. Choose it against the request format, output requirements and operational limits of your application.
The source metadata identifies support for router hosting. Confirm endpoint-specific parameters in the official reference before integrating that capability.
For a repeatable evaluation, use representative requests, inspect structured output or tool calls, and log latency and usage in your own account. Catalog metadata establishes compatibility; it does not measure answer quality on your workload. Start from the provider guide for authentication and endpoint setup.
Current pricing
| Model | Price type | USD | Unit | Tier | Region | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thinking Machines: Inkling | Cached Input | $0.17 | per 1M tokens | Standard | See source | Official source ↗ |
| Thinking Machines: Inkling | Input | $1 | per 1M tokens | Standard | See source | Official source ↗ |
| Thinking Machines: Inkling | Output | $4.05 | per 1M tokens | Standard | See source | Official source ↗ |
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Rate limits and availability
Published limits have not yet been verified for this selection. Check the official limits documentation and your account console.
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Account-specific capacity may differ. Check the provider rate-limit guide and the free-tier conditions.
Three alternatives to compare
These alternatives share a documented modality and have the closest combination of input price and context size in the current catalog. This is a specification comparison, not a quality benchmark.
| Model | Provider | Input / 1M tokens | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (batch) | OpenRouter | $1 | 1,048,576 |
| OpenAI: GPT-4.1 (batch) | OpenRouter | $1 | 1,047,576 |
| OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Sol (batch) | OpenRouter | $1 | 1,050,000 |
Use the exact identifier in Python
This identifier fragment belongs in the authenticated request described in the provider Python tutorial. The tutorial covers the correct SDK, endpoint, environment variable and response shape.
model = "thinkingmachines\/inkling"
# Pass model to the provider-specific request in the tutorial.Recent changes
- OpenRouter · Thinking Machines: Inkling — Amount UsdNot previously recorded → Price category: cached_input · USD: 0.17 · Unit: per 1M tokensSource ↗
- OpenRouter · Thinking Machines: Inkling — Amount UsdNot previously recorded → Price category: output · USD: 4.05 · Unit: per 1M tokensSource ↗
- OpenRouter · Thinking Machines: Inkling — Amount UsdNot previously recorded → Price category: input · USD: 1 · Unit: per 1M tokensSource ↗
- OpenRouter · Thinking Machines: Inkling — First SeenNot previously recorded → Model: Thinking Machines: InklingSource ↗
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