Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) API Pricing
Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) costs Free per 1M input tokens and Free per 1M output tokens. Context window: 1.0M. Prices verified 2026-10-21 · source
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What would Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $0.00 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $0.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $0.00 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $0.00 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)
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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Frequently asked questions
How much does Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) cost?
Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) costs Free per 1M input tokens and Free per 1M output tokens. Verified 2026-10-21 — provider source.
What is the context window?
1.0M tokens, with up to 262K output tokens per response. That's roughly 1311 pages of text in a single request.
Does it support prompt caching?
Prompt-caching pricing is not published for this model via OpenRouter.
What's a cheaper alternative?
Check the value chart for models with similar intelligence at lower cost.
Official resources
- Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) on OpenRouter — live endpoint, pricing source of record.
- Artificial Analysis leaderboard → — independent intelligence and performance rankings.
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