Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) 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 (free) from OpenRouter costs free per 1M input tokens and free per 1M output tokens. Context window 1,048,576 tokens.
API id thinkingmachines/inkling:free · OpenRouter · source · updated 2026-09-25 · general-purpose
Free
Input / 1M tokens
Free
Output / 1M tokens
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Cached input / 1M
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Context window
Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) specifications
- Provider
- OpenRouter
- API id
thinkingmachines/inkling:free- Model type
- general-purpose
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 262K tokens
- Currency
- USD
- Price source
- Provider API
- Last checked
- 2026-09-25
Tags
- reasoning
- vision
What Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) costs in practice
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat turn | 1,000 | 500 | Free |
| Document summary | 50,000 | 2,000 | Free |
| 1M tokens in, 200K out | 1,000,000 | 200,000 | Free |
Estimates use the standard tier and ignore caching discounts, so real bills with repeated prompt prefixes are typically lower.
Common questions
- How much does Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) cost per 1M tokens?
- Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) costs free per 1M input tokens and free per 1M output tokens on the standard tier.
- What is Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)'s context window?
- Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 262,144 output tokens.
- Where does this Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) 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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