Inkling Small (batch)
Inkling Small · Batch tier (Batch)
Asynchronous batch tier: discounted offline batch requests with high throughput and relaxed latency — ideal for large-scale non-real-time workloads.
Best for: Large-scale offline inference, cost-sensitive batch jobs, backfills
This page covers the Inkling Small Batch tier, sharing the underlying model capability with its real-time standard tier; the main difference is in billing mode and invocation method. See the Inkling Small standard real-time tier.
Provider：Thinking Machines
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of...
Key specs
- Context：524.3K
- Max output：471.9K
- Tokenizer：Other
- Released：2026-07-30
Token pricing
- Input price：$0.500 / 1M tokens
- Output price：$1.20 / 1M tokens
- Cache read：$0.100 / 1M tokens
- Blended price：$0.675 / 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.（≈ $0.0096/call）
- Vision Understanding & Generation：Recognize data trends in charts, OCR scanned docs, analyze photos and produce structured reports.（≈ $0.0072/call）
- Voice Interaction：Speech recognition & transcription, mixed CN/EN and dialect support — meeting notes, QA.
When to pick this model
Signals derived from public pricing and spec fields — not a benchmark. Validate with official docs and your own eval.
- Low output price: cost-effective for high-output tasks (long-form generation, code synthesis).
- 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 Small (batch)? Input price $0.500 / 1M tokens, output price $1.20 / 1M tokens, blended about $0.675 / 1M tokens. Refer to Thinking Machines’s official page for the exact rate.
- What context window does Inkling Small (batch) support? Context window is 524.3K, max output about 471.9K, suitable for long documents, multi-turn chat and complex reasoning.
- What scenarios is Inkling Small (batch) best for? Based on its capability and pricing, Inkling Small (batch) 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 Small (batch) support? Supports Text, Image, Audio modality.
- Is Inkling Small (batch) a free model? Inkling Small (batch) is billed per token, not a free model.
- Which provider offers Inkling Small (batch)? Inkling Small (batch) is offered by Thinking Machines.
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