Thinking Machines · Released Jul 15, 2026Inkling
Multimodal MoE reasoning model (975B total, 41B active) for text, image, and audio.
- Capability
- 148.6ECI · #57 of 148
- Input
- $3.74per 1M tokens
- Output
- $9.36per 1M tokens
- Context
- 1.05M1.05M max output
What it costs
- Input
- $3.74per million tokens
- Output
- $9.36per million tokens
- Cached input
- $0.748per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $5.14pricier than 89% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $12.16 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $140.30 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $1,403 |
Official Thinking Machines API price, as listed on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
#57 of 148 scored models
The shaded band is Epoch AI’s confidence range (145.7–150.6); the tick marks the median scored model.
Scores from Epoch AI, run independently of Thinking Machines.
The details
- Lab
- Thinking Machines
- Released
- Jul 15, 2026
- Context window
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Max output
- 1,048,576 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images, Audio
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- Adjustable effort low · medium · high · xhigh · max
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights · Apache-2.0
- API model ID
thinkingmachines/Inkling:peft:262144on Thinking Machines- Availability
- 23 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About Inkling
How much does Inkling cost?
Inkling costs $3.74 input / $9.36 output per million tokens (official Thinking Machines API price). Cached input is $0.748 per million tokens. At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $5.14 per million tokens, more expensive than 89% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Inkling?
Inkling accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens per request and can write up to 1,048,576 tokens in one response.
How good is Inkling?
Epoch AI gives Inkling a Capabilities Index score of 148.6 (likely range 145.7–150.6), ranking it #57 of 148 models Epoch has scored. Epoch AI benchmark results: GPQA Diamond 88.3%, FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 33.3%, OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 88.9%, SimpleQA Verified 40.3%.
Is Inkling open source?
Yes. Thinking Machines publishes the weights under the Apache-2.0 licence, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Inkling support?
Inkling accepts text, images and audio and replies in text. It is a reasoning model with low, medium, high, xhigh and max effort settings, supports tool calling.
When was Inkling released?
Thinking Machines released Inkling on Jul 15, 2026.
What are the best alternatives to Inkling?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Qwen3.6 Max Preview (Alibaba (Qwen), ECI 149.2, $1.30 / $7.80), Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic, ECI 152.3, $3.00 / $15.00), GPT-5.1 (OpenAI, ECI 149.7, $1.25 / $10.00) and GLM-5.1 (Z.ai (Zhipu), ECI 149.9, $1.40 / $4.40).