Last refreshed 2026-07-15. Next refresh: weekly.
Why use Inkling on Tinker?
Tinker offers Inkling with pay-as-you-go pricing at $1.87/1M input tokens. Tinker is Thinking Machines Lab's managed API platform for fine-tuning and sampling supported foundation models.
Compare Inkling across 2 providers to find the best fit for your use caseInput / 1M
$1.87
Output / 1M
$4.68
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Setup recipe
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Use the provider REST API or SDKAuth
Create a provider API keyCall
model: thinkingmachines/InklingModel ID
thinkingmachines/InklingRequest example
Curated snippets for this provider are not sourced yet. Use Tinker documentation with model ID
thinkingmachines/Inkling.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "thinkingmachines/Inkling", not the LLMReference slug "inkling".
Compare Inkling Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| Tinker | $1.87 | $4.68 |
| Baseten API | $1.00 | $4.05 |
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $1.87 |
| Output tokens | $4.68 |
Capabilities
VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useAudioFine-tuning
About Inkling
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.
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Model Specs
Released2026-07-15
Parameters975B total, 41B active
Context1m
ArchitectureMixture of Experts