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Inkling

$1.00/1M in · $4.05/1M out · 1.0M context. That's cheaper than 32% of the 341 models we track, by output price. Here's what it costs, how its price has moved, and where it fits.

output price · per 1M tokens
$4.05
input $1.00/1M · routed
Context
1.0M
Input / 1M
$1.00
Output / 1M
$4.05
Modality
text + image + audio
Provider
Thinkingmachines
Tokenizer
Other

Snapshot · source: OpenRouter ↗ · how we measure →

cost at a typical workload
$705 / mo

For 1,500 input + 500 output tokens across 200,000 requests/month. That's 118× the cheapest tracked option (Ling-2.6-flash, $6.00/mo).

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output price history
output / 1M

Flat at $4.05 since tracking began 2026-07-19. Full history →

Where it fits

  • Long inputs — a 1.0M-token window holds roughly 1,573 pages of text at once.
  • Multimodal prompts — accepts image input alongside text (and audio).

Watch for

  • Priced from OpenRouter's routed market, not a first-party list price — availability and rate can shift without notice.

These notes are derived from price, context and modality — structural facts, not measured quality. Measured cost-to-finish-a-task lives on the real-cost index.

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How to read Inkling's pricing

Two numbers decide most of the bill: $1.00/1M for input (everything you send — prompt, context, attachments) and $4.05/1M for output (everything it generates, including hidden reasoning tokens). Output is priced 4.0× the input rate here, so the shape of your workload — how much it reads versus writes — matters as much as the headline figure. This row is OpenRouter's routed market price; it can move as providers and routing change.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Inkling cost per million tokens?

Inkling is priced at $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $4.05 per 1M output tokens, from OpenRouter's routed market price as of the 2026-07-29 snapshot. Output is the figure that usually drives the bill. Enter your own token volumes in the cost calculator for a monthly estimate.

What is Inkling's context window?

Inkling has a 1.0M-token context window — roughly 1,573 pages of text. Prompt, attachments, conversation and the model's own output all share that budget, and every token you send is billed at the input rate.

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