Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small pricing
Inkling 2 Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 17B active parameters out of 594B total. Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small from OpenRouter costs $0.300 per 1M input tokens and $1.00 per 1M output tokens. Cached input is $0.030 per 1M. Context window 1,048,576 tokens.
API id thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small · OpenRouter · source · updated 2026-11-13 · general-purpose
$0.300
Input / 1M tokens
$1.00
Output / 1M tokens
$0.030
Cached input / 1M
1M
Context window
Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small specifications
- Provider
- OpenRouter
- API id
thinkingmachines/inkling-2-small- Model type
- general-purpose
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Max output
- 944K tokens
- Currency
- USD
- Price source
- Provider API
- Last checked
- 2026-11-13
Tags
- reasoning
- vision
What Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small costs in practice
| Workload | Input tokens | Output tokens | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Short chat turn | 1,000 | 500 | $0.0008 |
| Document summary | 50,000 | 2,000 | $0.02 |
| 1M tokens in, 200K out | 1,000,000 | 200,000 | $0.50 |
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 2 Small cost per 1M tokens?
- Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small costs $0.300 per 1M input tokens and $1.00 per 1M output tokens on the standard tier. Cached input is $0.030 per 1M.
- What is Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small's context window?
- Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 943,718 output tokens.
- Is there a cheaper OpenRouter model than Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small?
- Yes. Free Models Router is free per 1M input tokens versus $0.300 for Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small, with a 200,000 token context window.
- Where does this Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small 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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