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Inkling: price, performance and context
Open Inkling by Thinking Machines costs $1.00 per 1M input and $4.05 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 524.3K tokens in one request (≈ 1,600 pages of text) and scores 25 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 68 of 212.
Privacy: zero data retention with 2 providers, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 98.3%.
Open in the interactive comparisonKey facts
- Licence
- Open weights: free to download and self-host
- Input / 1M tokens
- $1.00
- Output / 1M tokens
- $4.05
- Context window
- 524.3K tokens
- Max. output
- 471.9K tokens
- Performance index
- 25 points · rank 68 of 212
- Coding index
- 52.1 points · rank 52 of 119
- Agentic index
- 22.5 points · rank 38 of 91
- Cost at your usage
- $2.013 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- In the catalog since
- Jul 17, 2026
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.002 | 4,300 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.002 | 5,300 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.005 | 1,900 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.01 | 1,000 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.108 | 92 |
Cheaper with similar performance
| Model | Licence | Performance | Your cost / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ling 3.1 FlashinclusionAI | Proprietary | 41.1 | $0.00 |
| Ling 3.0 Flash VLinclusionAI | Open | 24.6 | $0.036 |
| Ling 3.0 FlashinclusionAI | Open | 20.1 | $0.037 |
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| Model | Licence | Performance | Your cost / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.7 PlusQwen | Proprietary | 25.2 | $0.64 |
| MiMo-V2.5Xiaomi | Open | 25.2 | $0.21 |
| Hy3 previewTencent | Open | 25.3 | $0.33 |