MODEL PROOF
Inkling
TRADE-OFF
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher score and an equal-or-lower price, with capability losses.
Serving precision differs between offers.
MiMo-V2.6-Pro · Δ score 49.2 points · 69% lower measured price
- 262K → 131K max output
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,441.8 ± 4.48 · 35,204 votes
- Context window
- 524.29K
- Maximum output
- 262.14K
- Input modalities
- text, image, audio
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.950 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $4.05 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from DeepInfra: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at a declared precision that is not 4-bit (fp8), at its standard rate. The maker’s own precision is not known.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.950/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $4.05/M |
| Cached input | $0.160/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.950/M from DeepInfra.
2 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfradeepinfra/fp8 Endpoint terms
| $0.950 | $4.05 | fp8 | 99.74% |
| Togethertogether Endpoint terms
| $1.00 | $4.05 | undeclared | 99.65% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1441.8default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Best rankings by task
- Websites #48 1228
- Code categories #50 1208
- UI components #53 1205
- SVG #56 1113
- 3D #57 1165
- Game development #61 1177
- ASCII art #61 1104
- Data visualisation #68 1172
Per-task Elo and rank from Design Arena, via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.
Capability
| Context window | 524K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 262K |
| Input modes | text, image, audio |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | verified |
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,...
Questions this page answers
What does Inkling cost?
$0.950/M in, $4.05/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Inkling have an independent quality score?
Inkling has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Inkling?
MiMo-V2.6-Pro has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price, with capability trade-offs.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Inkling?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
Is the cheapest Inkling endpoint the same product?
Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.950/M from DeepInfra.
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