Inkling Small: API pricing, providers and specs
Inkling Small is a text model by Thinking Machines. 6 providers serve it, from $1.20 to $1.52 /1M; the lowest price is at Vercel AI Gateway.
How Inkling Small compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Mid-priced: its lowest price is $1.20 /1M against a median of $1.10; 52% of comparable models cost less.
- Its 1.05M-token context window is larger than 83% of them (median 262K), about 1570 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #32 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 6 providers serve it; 69% of comparable models have fewer.
Inkling Small prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Hugging Face | $0.45/1M | From$1.20/1M | — | — |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.45/1M | $1.20/1M | $0.10/1M | 1M |
 Deep Infra | $0.45/1M | $1.20/1M | $0.10/1M | — |
| OpenRouter | $0.45/1M | From$1.20/1M | $0.10/1M | 524K |
 Impossibl | $0.58/1M | $1.44/1M | $0.116/1M | — |
| AI/ML API | $0.614/1M | $1.52/1M | $0.123/1M | — |
- Vercel AI Gateway$1.20
- Deep Infra$1.20
- Hugging FaceFrom$1.20
- OpenRouterFrom$1.20
- Impossibl$1.44
- AI/ML API$1.52
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- Thinking Machines
- Inputs
- Audio, Image, Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 1.05M≈ 1570 pages of text
- Max output
- 262K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, Reasoning, Tool calling, Vision
- Released
- Jul 30, 2026
- License
- proprietary
- Open weights
- No, API only
- Arena score
- 1413Text
Alternatives to Inkling Small
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inkling Smallthis model | $1.20/1M | 1.05M | 1413 | 6 |
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 Gemini 3 Flash | $2.40/1M | 1.05M | 1466 | 5 |
 Mistral Large 4 | $2.09/1M | 1.05M | 1543 | 13 |
 Qwen3.8 27B | $0.50/1M | 262K | 1591 | 33 |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.40/1M | 1.05M | 1578 | 28 |
 Sonar | $1/1M | 127K | — | 9 |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.80/1M | 1M | 1604 | 44 |
| Grok Build 0.1 | $1.60/1M | 256K | — | 18 |
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Inkling Small FAQ
The lowest price for Inkling Small is $1.20 /1M, at Vercel AI Gateway.
Vercel AI Gateway, at $1.20 /1M. 6 providers serve Inkling Small; the table above lists every one with its price.
Inkling Small reads up to 1.05M tokens per request and writes up to 262K.
No. Inkling Small is only available through an API; Thinking Machines does not publish its weights.
6 API providers serve Inkling Small. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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