Inkling
Inkling is worth evaluating for rag, agents, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
- Workloads that can use a 1m context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
- Family
- Inkling
- Released
- 2026-07-15
- Context
- 1m
- Parameters
- 975B total, 41B active
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Building collaborative AI aligned with human values.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Baseten API · cache read $0.170
About
Inkling is Thinking Machines Lab's Apache-2.0 open-weight general-purpose multimodal model. It accepts text, image, and audio inputs and generates text with a 1M-token context window. Compare it for Coding, RAG, Agents, Long context, Vision, and JSON / Tool use.
Inkling is an open-source model. The structured metadata tracks a 1m-token context window, multimodal input, audio, reasoning, and tool use. This page tracks provider routes through Tinker and Baseten API, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $1 input and $4.05 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Inkling yet.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cache | Route |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseten API | $1.00 | $4.05 | read $0.170 | ServerlessProvisioned |
| Tinker | $1.87 | $4.68 | read $0.374 |
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
API versions
thinkingmachines/InklingRankings & picks(2)
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Inkling?
Inkling has a context window of 1m tokens.
How much does Inkling cost?
Inkling pricing ranges from $1.00/1M to $1.87/1M input tokens depending on the provider.
When was Inkling released?
Inkling was released on 2026-07-15.
Which providers offer Inkling?
Inkling is available from 2 providers: Tinker, Baseten API.
Building collaborative AI aligned with human values.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Baseten API · cache read $0.170