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# Thinking Machines: Inkling — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Thinking Machines: Inkling: $0.950/M in, $4.05/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Inkling

Thinking Machines · released 2026-07-17

 $1.73 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher and costs less — but you would give something up.

**+13.7** on the capability index and **57% cheaper** ($0.750/M against $1.73/M). What you lose:

 - 262K → 66K max output

Capability scores do not measure context length, output ceiling or which inputs a model accepts, so a higher score does not mean a drop-in replacement.

The same model via **free** is 100% cheaper (free/M) — same weights, different latency.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $0.950 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $4.05 /M |
| Cached input | $0.160 /M |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 42.3 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 52.1 |
| Agentic | 34.1 |
| LMArena Elo | 1439.2 default |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 1.0M |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 262K |
| Input modes | text, image, audio |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| 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,...