Inkling Small: API pricing, context window and capabilities

Prices from official vendor price lists · October 2026

Inkling Small costs $0.45 per 1M input tokens and $1.2 per 1M output tokens, with a 1.05M context window. Mid-priced: dearer than 33% of this rating. Recorded for vision, long context 1M+.

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Capabilities

API $/1M (in / out)

$0.45 / $1.2

Context window

1.05M tokens

Price / mo

API only

Overview Reviews

Inkling Small is an AI model from Thinkingmachines, priced at $0.45 input and $1.2 output per 1M tokens. That places it in the budget tier of this rating — cheaper than 63% of the 205 priced models listed.

It holds 1.05M tokens in a single conversation, enough for a full codebase or a contract bundle in one pass. Capabilities recorded in this rating: text & chat, vision, audio, long context 1M+, low latency. Access is through the API rather than a consumer subscription.

API price$0.45 / $1.2per 1M tokens, in / out

Context1.05M tokenstokens per conversation

VendorThinkingmachinesall models from this vendor

TierBudgetcheaper than 63% of models

Cost calculator

1M tokens/mo10M tokens/mo50M tokens/mo200M tokens/mo

Standard$1.01~~AED 4 per month~~

With batch −50%$0.51~~AED 2 per month~~

With caching on input$0.91~~AED 3 per month~~

Standard$10.13~~AED 37 per month~~

With batch −50%$5.06~~AED 19 per month~~

With caching on input$9.11~~AED 33 per month~~

Standard$50.63~~AED 186 per month~~

With batch −50%$25.31~~AED 93 per month~~

With caching on input$45.56~~AED 167 per month~~

Standard$203~~AED 744 per month~~

With batch −50%$101~~AED 372 per month~~

With caching on input$182~~AED 669 per month~~

Assumes a 1:3 input-to-output ratio, which is typical for chat and generation. Dirham figures use 3.6725 per dollar. Batch and caching discounts apply where the vendor offers them.

Compared with alternatives

How Inkling Small sits against its neighbours in this rating. Tap a card to open that model.

Step 3.7 Flash

Cheaper

Stepfun

$0.2 / $1.15262.1K tokens

GPT-5.6 Luna

Closest match

OpenAI

$0.2 / $1.21.05M tokens

GPT-5.4 Nano

Step up

OpenAI

$0.2 / $1.25400K tokens

Good and poor fit

Good fit

Reading screenshots, charts, scanned documents and photos.
Whole codebases, contract bundles and long transcripts in a single pass.
High-volume routing, classification and autocomplete.

Poor fit

Long multi-step reasoning, where a larger model finishes in fewer attempts.
Integrations that depend on structured function calls.

Related filters

Text & chat234 models for text generation and chat

Vision159 models that read images

Long context 1M+88 models holding 1M tokens or more

Low latency76 small, fast models for volume

MultilingualAll 245 models work beyond English

Thinkingmachines2 models from this vendor

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Inkling Small cost?

$0.45 / $1.2 per 1M tokens, input and output. In dirhams that is roughly AED 1.65 per 1M input tokens. Batch processing halves it where the vendor offers it.

What is the context window of Inkling Small?

1.05M tokens in a single conversation.

What can Inkling Small do?

In this rating it is recorded with: text & chat, vision, audio, long context 1M+, low latency, multilingual, proprietary API.

Is Inkling Small a good choice?

It depends on the job. See the good-fit and poor-fit lists above, and compare against the neighbouring models before committing.

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