How much does Inkling cost per million tokens?

Inkling costs $1 per million input tokens and $4.05 per million output tokens at list price, and $0.17 per million cached input tokens.

What is the context window of Inkling?

Inkling accepts up to 524,288 tokens of context and returns up to 471,859 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Inkling?

About $3.03, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Inkling?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), Qwen Qwen3.8 Omni Flash ($0.15 / $0.47) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Thinking Machines API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Thinking Machines sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Thinking Machines · live price

Inkling API pricing

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,...

Mid-range ($1–5 per 1M)Tool callingReasoningimage inputaudio input

Input: $1; per 1M tokens
Output: $4.05; per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.17; per 1M tokens
Context: 524K; 472K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Thinking Machines's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released July 17, 2026. Model id thinkingmachines/inkling.

What Inkling costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$3.03

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$10.03

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$3.81

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Inkling price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Inkling price by host

DeepInfra serves it below list price right now. Route to it to pay less on every token.

DeepInfra$0.95 in · $4.05 out · 524K ctx · 99.9% uptime 24h
Together$1 in · $4.05 out · 524K ctx · 99.8% uptime 24h

Where to buy Thinking Machines credits for less

Inkling costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

Disclosure: this site is run by the team behind smaaart, one of the options compared. Tables are ranked by price only, from live quotes and published fees, including when smaaart isn't first. How we compare

Inkling cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$1.00 in / $4.05 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$90.50/ month(quotes below are for $91.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to Inkling

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX	$0.37	$1.25	$0.59	1.0M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash	$0.75	$3.75	$1.50	1.0M

Other Thinking Machines models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Inkling Small	$0.45	$1.20	$0.637	524K

All Thinking Machines API prices