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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...
How much does Thinking Machines: Inkling Small cost for a real workload?
At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month, Thinking Machines: Inkling Small costs about $6.9 ($4.5 input + $2.4 output). Try your own volumes in the cost calculator.
What are cheaper alternatives to Thinking Machines: Inkling Small?
- Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX — $0.37 in / $1.25 out per 1M
- Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus — $0.32 in / $1.28 out per 1M
- Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B — $0.3 in / $1.2 out per 1M
- Meituan: LongCat 2.0 — $0.3 in / $1.2 out per 1M
- MiniMax: MiniMax M3 — $0.3 in / $1.2 out per 1M
- MiniMax: MiniMax M2.7 — $0.3 in / $1.2 out per 1M
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Thinking Machines: Inkling Small cost?
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small costs $0.45 per 1M input tokens and $1.2 per 1M output tokens (list price, snapshot October 21, 2026). At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month that is about $6.9.
What is the context window of Thinking Machines: Inkling Small?
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small has a context window of 524,288 tokens and can return up to 262,144 output tokens per response.
What are cheaper alternatives to Thinking Machines: Inkling Small?
Cheaper models include Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX ($0.37 in / $1.25 out), Qwen: Qwen3.7 Plus ($0.32 in / $1.28 out), Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B ($0.3 in / $1.2 out). See the full list on this page.
Is Thinking Machines: Inkling Small free to use?
No. Thinking Machines: Inkling Small is a paid model at $0.45 input / $1.2 output per 1M tokens. 20 free models are listed on the free models page.
Provider: thinkingmachines · Model ID: thinkingmachines/inkling-small · Modality: text+image+audio->text · Price snapshot October 21, 2026, refreshed daily. How we collect prices