Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab's general-purpose multimodal model with controllable reasoning effort.

Input price
$1.00
Output price
$4.05
Context
1M
Max output
33K
Modalities
InputTextImageAudioOutputText
149 (#53 of 89)
1443
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Released
2026-07-14
Knowledge cutoff
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Providers

Providers that serve this model. With Auto, each request goes to the best available provider. Prices in USD per 1M tokens; stats cover the last 30 days.

Pricing

All prices for this model, by service tier.

Input
$1.00
per 1M tokens
Output
$4.05
per 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.17
per 1M tokens

Make a request

Set your provider preferences, then copy the request. It reads your API key from OHMYGPT_API_KEY.

Later turns reuse the provider’s prompt cache, which can lower cost and latency.

curl https://api.ohmygpt.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OHMYGPT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "thinking-machines/inkling",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Hello"
      }
    ]
  }'

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Capability scores are from Epoch AI’s Epoch Capabilities Index (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-11-02), which combines dozens of benchmarks with GPT-5 set at 150. epoch.ai/eci

Price: our current input price per 1M tokens in USD, lowest across channels. Dated snapshots and resold copies of the same model are merged into one point; free models are not shown.

Shaded area: capability above and price below the median of all models. Pareto frontier: no other model is both cheaper and more capable.

InklingThis model
149
Input
$1.00
Output
$4.05
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160
Input
$1.00–$2.00
Output
$6.00–$9.00
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Input
$0.99–$2.31
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$1.9806–$4.84
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Human preference ratings are from the LMArena Text Arena (CC BY 4.0, as of 2026-10-28): Elo ratings from blind votes, on a different scale from capability scores. lmarena.ai/leaderboard/text