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Inkling
Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning, coding, agentic and tool-use systems, retrieval-augmented generation, instruction following, and multilingual conversational applications. Its native image and audio understanding supports multimodal analysis alongside text.
Specifications
| Lab | Thinking Machines |
|---|---|
| Context window | 524.3K tokens |
| Input price | $1.00/1M |
| Output price | $4.05/1M |
| Release | Jul 2026 |
Strengths
- Supports text and image input with text output
- Million-token context window for very long tasks
- Tool-use support for agentic workflows
Weaknesses
- Newer listing with limited independent benchmark coverage
- Multimodal performance may vary by provider endpoint
Best for
- Agentic workflows and tool-using applications
- Multimodal document and screenshot analysis
- Long-context document and codebase processing
In Depth: Inkling
Summary
Inkling is an AI model from Thinking Machines.
Released in Jul 2026. It takes text, image, and audio input and produces text output, with a context window of 524.3K tokens. Input pricing is $1.00 per 1M tokens and output is $4.05 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.