How much does Thinking Machines: Inkling cost per 1M tokens?

Thinking Machines: Inkling costs $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $4.05 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier. Cached input is $0.170 per 1M.

What is Thinking Machines: Inkling's context window?

Thinking Machines: Inkling accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 471,859 output tokens.

Is there a cheaper OpenRouter model than Thinking Machines: Inkling?

Yes. OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo is $0.500 per 1M input tokens versus $1.00 for Thinking Machines: Inkling, with a 16,385 token context window.

Where does this Thinking Machines: Inkling price come from?

From the OpenRouter catalogue, because OpenRouter does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from OpenRouter's own — verify before committing spend.

Thinking Machines: Inkling pricing

Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. Thinking Machines: Inkling from OpenRouter costs $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $4.05 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.170 per 1M. Context window 1,048,576 tokens.

API id thinkingmachines/inkling · OpenRouter · source · updated 2026-09-25 · general-purpose

$1.00

Input / 1M tokens

$4.05

Output / 1M tokens

$0.170

Cached input / 1M

Context window

Thinking Machines: Inkling specifications

Provider: OpenRouter
API id: thinkingmachines/inkling
Model type: general-purpose
Context window: 1M tokens
Max output: 472K tokens
Currency: USD
Price source: Provider API
Last checked: 2026-09-25

What Thinking Machines: Inkling costs in practice

Estimated cost at common usage volumes
Workload	Input tokens	Output tokens	Estimated cost
Short chat turn	1,000	500	$0.0030
Document summary	50,000	2,000	$0.06
1M tokens in, 200K out	1,000,000	200,000	$1.81

Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.

Thinking Machines: Inkling price history

Recorded	Input /1M	Output /1M
2026-08-30	$1.00	$4.05
2026-08-27	$0.950	$4.05

Common questions

How much does Thinking Machines: Inkling cost per 1M tokens?: Thinking Machines: Inkling costs $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $4.05 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier. Cached input is $0.170 per 1M.
What is Thinking Machines: Inkling's context window?: Thinking Machines: Inkling accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 471,859 output tokens.
Is there a cheaper OpenRouter model than Thinking Machines: Inkling?: Yes. OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo is $0.500 per 1M input tokens versus $1.00 for Thinking Machines: Inkling, with a 16,385 token context window.
Where does this Thinking Machines: Inkling price come from?: From the OpenRouter catalogue, because OpenRouter does not publish machine-readable pricing. OpenRouter is a reseller, so its rate can differ from OpenRouter's own — verify before committing spend.

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