thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small pricing
Inkling-Small is a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 276B total parameters, 12B active, trained on NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems. Like Inkling, it features native reasoning over audio and images, variable thinking effort thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small from DeepInfra costs $0.450 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.100 per 1M. Context window 524,288 tokens.
API id thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small · DeepInfra · source · updated 2026-09-25 · general-purpose
$0.450
Input / 1M tokens
$1.20
Output / 1M tokens
$0.100
Cached input / 1M
524K
Context window
thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small specifications
- Provider
- DeepInfra
- API id
thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small- Model type
- general-purpose
- Context window
- 524K tokens
- Max output
- not published
- Currency
- USD
- Price source
- Provider API
- Last checked
- 2026-09-25
What thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small costs in practice
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat turn | 1,000 | 500 | $0.0010 |
| Document summary | 50,000 | 2,000 | $0.02 |
| 1M tokens in, 200K out | 1,000,000 | 200,000 | $0.69 |
Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.
Common questions
- How much does thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small cost per 1M tokens?
- thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small costs $0.450 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier. Cached input is $0.100 per 1M.
- What is thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small's context window?
- thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small accepts up to 524,288 tokens in a single request.
- Is there a cheaper DeepInfra model than thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small?
- Yes. deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash is $0.090 per 1M input tokens versus $0.450 for thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small, with a 1,048,576 token context window.
- Where does this thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small price come from?
- From the OpenRouter catalogue, because DeepInfra does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from DeepInfra's own — verify before committing spend.
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