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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small pricing

Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. Thinking Machines: Inkling Small from OpenRouter 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 · OpenRouter · source · updated 2026-11-10 · general-purpose

$0.450
Input / 1M tokens
$1.20
Output / 1M tokens
$0.100
Cached input / 1M
524K
Context window

Thinking Machines: Inkling Small specifications

Provider
OpenRouter
API id
thinkingmachines/inkling-small
Model type
general-purpose
Context window
524K tokens
Max output
262K tokens
Currency
USD
Price source
Provider API
Last checked
2026-11-10

Tags

  • reasoning
  • vision

What Thinking Machines: Inkling Small costs in practice

Estimated cost at common usage volumes
WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensEstimated cost
Short chat turn1,000500$0.0010
Document summary50,0002,000$0.02
1M tokens in, 200K out1,000,000200,000$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 Thinking Machines: Inkling Small cost per 1M tokens?
Thinking Machines: 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 Thinking Machines: Inkling Small's context window?
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small accepts up to 524,288 tokens in a single request, and can return up to 262,144 output tokens.
Is there a cheaper OpenRouter model than Thinking Machines: Inkling Small?
Yes. Free Models Router is free per 1M input tokens versus $0.450 for Thinking Machines: Inkling Small, with a 200,000 token context window.
Where does this Thinking Machines: Inkling 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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