Inkling

thinkingmachines/inkling

Maker: Thinking Machines Lab, United States
Released: 2026-07-15
Family: ling
Weights: open
Tasks: text.chat, text.reasoning, code, vision.understand, vision.extract
Cheapest offering: OpenRouter, about $0 for a typical text.chat call

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Offerings

Provider	Model id at the provider	Status	Price per 1M tokens	Per-unit prices	Limits	Capabilities (level)
DeepInfra	`thinkingmachines/Inkling`	deprecated	Input: $0.95 Output: $4.05 Cache read: $0.16 Since 2026-11-03 · models.dev, MIT	none	Context: 524,288 tokens Max output: 1,048,576 tokens	`input.text` claimed `input.image` claimed `input.audio` claimed `input.pdf` claimed `output.text` claimed `tools` claimed `structured_output` claimed `reasoning` claimed `tool_choice` claimed `prompt_caching` claimed
Fireworks AI	`accounts/fireworks/models/inkling`	deprecateddeprecated 2026-11-07	Input: $1 Output: $4.05 Cache read: $0.17 Since 2026-11-03 · models.dev, MIT	none	Context: 1,048,576 tokens Max output: 1,048,576 tokens	`input.text` claimed `input.image` claimed `input.pdf` claimed `output.text` claimed `tools` claimed `structured_output` claimed `reasoning` claimed `tool_choice` claimed
OpenRouter	`thinkingmachines/inkling`	ga	Input: $1 Output: $4.05 Cache read: $0.17 Since 2026-11-03 · models.dev, MIT	none	Context: 524,288 tokens Max output: 471,859 tokens	`input.text` claimed `input.image` claimed `input.audio` claimed `input.pdf` claimed `output.text` claimed `tools` claimed `reasoning` claimed
OpenRouter	`thinkingmachines/inkling:free`	ga	Input: $0 Output: $0 Since 2026-11-03 · models.dev, MIT	none	Context: 1,048,576 tokens Max output: 262,144 tokens	`input.text` claimed `input.image` claimed `input.audio` claimed `input.pdf` claimed `output.text` claimed `tools` claimed `reasoning` claimed
Together AI	`thinkingmachines/Inkling`	gadeprecated 2026-11-06	Input: $1 Output: $4.05 Cache read: $0.17 Since 2026-11-03 · models.dev, MIT	none	Context: 524,288 tokens Max output: 131,072 tokens	`input.text` claimed `input.image` claimed `input.audio` claimed `input.pdf` claimed `output.text` claimed `tools` claimed `structured_output` claimed `reasoning` claimed `parallel_tools` claimed `tool_choice` claimed `prompt_caching` claimed

Quality scores

Basis	Score (0–1)	Raw	Measured	Source
`epoch:gpqa_diamond`	0.916	0.8826	2026-08-05	Epoch AI, CC-BY-4.0, normalized by Nanner Tech
`epoch:frontiermath`	0.356	0.3333	2026-08-06	Epoch AI, CC-BY-4.0, normalized by Nanner Tech
`lmarena:webdev`	0.187	1415.1920	2026-10-28	LMArena, CC-BY-4.0, normalized by Nanner Tech
`lmarena:agent`	0.000	-0.1608	2026-11-02	LMArena, CC-BY-4.0, normalized by Nanner Tech

Aliases

Other names the API accepts for this model.

accounts/fireworks/models/inkling
thinkingmachines/inkling:free

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curl 'https://rhumbdata.com/v1/models/thinkingmachines/inkling' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RHUMB_KEY"

Resolve text.chat on its providers

curl 'https://rhumbdata.com/v1/resolve?task=text.chat&providers=deepinfra,fireworks,openrouter,together' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $RHUMB_KEY"

Built from catalog version 2026-11-04.3 of 2026-11-04. Prices are list prices per 1M tokens unless marked otherwise; every score shows its source's notice (see Attributions).