Inkling Small pricing.
prices as of · 14 providers · 17 prices
Thinking Machines' Inkling Small holds 1M tokens of context, reads images as well as text and has a reasoning mode. Open weights, so anyone may host it, which is why the prices below differ so much.
Inkling Small costs $0.45 in and $1.20 out per million tokens from OpenRouter; the cheapest price we can explain is $2.22 at TrustedRouter, checked 16 Sept 2026.
OpenRouter list price
$2.55/M tokens
$0.45 in · $1.20 out
read · 28% below the market median
Cheapest price we can explain
$2.22/M tokens
$0.32 in · $1.27 out · 13% under list
TrustedRouterread
What it costs for your work
OpenRouter list price
$0.342a month
cheapest we can explain · TrustedRouter
$0.266a month
difference
$0.0761saved
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Every provider selling Inkling Small
Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against OpenRouter's price. Thinking Machines trained Inkling Small and sells it on no catalog we read, so the price every row is measured against is OpenRouter's.
Cheaper, and we know why
1 priceBelow list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.
- TrustedRouter
Routes to a host serving the open weights; precision not disclosed.
524k context hereTrustedRouter ↗$0.32 / $1.27in / out per M
0.87×of list price
Same price as the maker
16 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
$0.45 / $1.20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.45 / $1.20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.45 / $1.20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.45 / $1.20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.45 / $1.20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.45 / $1.20in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.50 / $1.20in / out per M
1.06×of list price
$0.50 / $1.20in / out per M
1.06×of list price
$0.50 / $1.20in / out per M
1.06×of list price
Hugging Face Inference Providers11% above OpenRouter's price.
524k context hereHugging Face Inference Providers ↗$0.50 / $1.20in / out per M
1.06×of list price
$0.50 / $1.20in / out per M
1.06×of list price
$0.50 / $1.20in / out per M
1.06×of list price
- Arcee AI
11% above OpenRouter's price.
262k context here$0.50 / $1.20in / out per M
1.06×of list price
$0.50 / $1.20in / out per M
1.06×of list price
$0.50 / $1.20in / out per M
1.06×of list price
$0.58 / $1.44in / out per M
1.25×of list price
Frequently asked
- Who sells Inkling Small cheapest?
- TrustedRouter, at $0.32 in and $1.27 out per million tokens, read on 16 Sept 2026. Routes to a host serving the open weights; precision not disclosed.
- Is Inkling Small open weights?
- Yes. Thinking Machines publishes the weights, so anyone may host Inkling Small, which is why 14 providers sell it and why their prices differ so much.
- How much context does Inkling Small hold?
- 1,048,576 tokens in one call, which is about 1M, and it can call your own functions.
- How does Inkling Small compare with the rest of the market?
- At $2.55 per million tokens, OpenRouter's price is 28% below the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.