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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small API Pricing
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small costs $0.450 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens (cache reads: $0.100). Context window: 1.0M. Prices verified 2026-08-23 · source
Input / 1M tokens
$0.450
Output / 1M tokens
$1.20
Context window
1.0M
Max output
262K
What would Thinking Machines: Inkling Small cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $8.40 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $30.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $72.00 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $20.40 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of...