Inkling
Provider：Thinking Machines
Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning, coding, agentic and tool-use systems,...
Key specs
- Context：1M
- Max output：471.9K
- Tokenizer：Other
- Released：2026-07-17
Token pricing
- Input price：$1.00 / 1M tokens
- Output price：$4.05 / 1M tokens
- Cache read：$0.170 / 1M tokens
- Blended price：$1.76 / 1M tokens
Modalities
Text, Image, Audio
Use Cases
- Deep Reasoning & Analysis：Process long legal docs, academic papers, financial reports; multi-hop reasoning and evidence-chain tracing across huge contexts.（≈ $0.032/call）
- Vision Understanding & Generation：Recognize data trends in charts, OCR scanned docs, analyze photos and produce structured reports.（≈ $0.024/call）
- Voice Interaction：Speech recognition & transcription, mixed CN/EN and dialect support — meeting notes, QA.
- Chat & Support：FAQ auto-response, multi-turn dialogue, emotion detection — e-commerce, finance, gov.（≈ $0.0081/call）
When to pick this model
Signals derived from public pricing and spec fields — not a benchmark. Validate with official docs and your own eval.
- Long context (>=1M tokens): well-suited for long-doc QA, code-base analysis, multi-turn agents.
- Long max output (>=30K tokens): strong fit for deep report / essay / document-drafting workflows.
- Multimodal (text+image): fit for image captioning, OCR, chart QA, vision-grounded reasoning.
- Audio support: fit for speech-to-text / voice agent / transcript analysis.
FAQ
- What is the token pricing of Inkling? Input price $1.00 / 1M tokens, output price $4.05 / 1M tokens, blended about $1.76 / 1M tokens. Refer to Thinking Machines’s official page for the exact rate.
- What context window does Inkling support? Context window is 1M, max output about 471.9K, suitable for long documents, multi-turn chat and complex reasoning.
- What scenarios is Inkling best for? Based on its capability and pricing, Inkling fits best: Deep Reasoning & Analysis, Vision Understanding & Generation, Voice Interaction. See the Use Cases section for details and cost estimates.
- What input/output modalities does Inkling support? Supports Text, Image, Audio modality.
- Is Inkling a free model? Inkling is billed per token, not a free model.
- Which provider offers Inkling? Inkling is offered by Thinking Machines.
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