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Thinking Machines: Inkling — AI Model Review & Pricing
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
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Lab | Thinkingmachines |
| Tags | Intelligent Coding Reasoning Agentic Open Weight Multimodal Image Input Long Context |
| Release Date | 2026-07 |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.00 |
| Output Price / 1M | $4.05 |
| Input Modalities | Text, Image, Audio |
| Output Modalities | Text |
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: Thinking Machines: Inkling
Summary
Thinking Machines: Inkling is an AI model from Thinkingmachines.
Released 2026-07. It supports Text, Image, Audio input and produces Text output, with a context window of 1,048,576 tokens. Input pricing is $1.00 per 1M tokens and output is $4.05 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.