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Inkling Small Pricing
Thinking Machines · thinkingmachines-inkling-small
Input / 1M tokens
$0.580
Output / 1M tokens
$1.44
Context window
524,288 tokens
≈ 699 pages of text
Max output
262,144 tokens
What it costs in practice
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out tokens)$0.0013
1,000 requests / month$1.27/mo10,000 requests / month$12.72/mo100,000 requests / month$127.20/moEstimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Inkling Small preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.
Price history
Only one price point recorded so far.
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What it excels at
Supports extended multimodal inputs and outputs at low per-token cost with open weights for self-hosted deployment.
The business tradeoff
Small parameter count limits complex reasoning depth; performance varies with local hardware and inference stack.
Head-to-head
Vendor list rates, as of Jul 31, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.