Inkling 2 Small API pricing
thinkingmachines · Budget price tier · released 2026-11. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-11-14.
A support ticket workload of 100K requests a month costs $95.00 on Inkling 2 Small; the next cheaper model in the Budget price tier for this workload, Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking, does it for $93.50. Inkling 2 Small has held the same list price since 2026-11-14 and is the 115th cheapest of 159 models in the Budget price tier. Buying from PrimeIntellect rather than at the price we quote lowers the token price by about 50%, for a quantized fp4 build. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.30 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.00 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (in/out): Not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.03 per 1M tokens
- Context window: 1M tokens
- Arena ELO: Not published
Market position
On blended price ($0.79 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 27% of models in the Budget price tier: 115th cheapest of 159, tied with 2 others. Across every price tier it is cheaper than 62% of priced text models in the catalogue: 115th cheapest of 304, tied with 2 others. No Arena score has been published for Inkling 2 Small, so this page does not rank it on quality and OptimNow's quality bars do not apply to it. 76 of the 159 models we list in the Budget price tier carry one. An unranked model is unmeasured, not poor: the benchmark needs votes, and a recent release has not had time to collect them.
Licence, size and capabilities
No licence is recorded for Inkling 2 Small, so this page does not say whether it can be self-hosted. Its published size is 594B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision, Reasoning, Agents. Filling its 1M context window once costs $0.30 in input tokens at list price.
Pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token: the model maker, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent host. One model, several hosts, and often several prices. This model is sold by 6 different hosts. The price we quote elsewhere on this page is marked. We quote one host's rate so that models stay comparable; it is not a recommendation to buy there.
Cheapest host: PrimeIntellect at $0.15 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens, 50% below the price we quote on the blended price (30% input, 70% output). It serves a quantized fp4 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. A support ticket workload at 100K requests a month costs $47.50 there against $95.00 at the price we quote, a difference of $47.50 a month. The dearest, Cloudflare, charges 2.0x the cheapest.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Precision |
|---|---|---|---|
| PrimeIntellect | $0.15 | $0.50 | fp4 |
| DeepInfra | $0.285 | $0.95 | fp4 |
| Modal (price we quote) | $0.30 | $1.00 | nvfp4 |
| Nebius (price we quote) | $0.30 | $1.00 | fp4 |
| Together (price we quote) | $0.30 | $1.00 | not declared |
| Cloudflare (price we quote) | $0.30 | $1.00 | not declared |
List prices as published on 2026-11-14, via OpenRouter. Negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown. These hosts do not all serve the model at the same numeric precision, so the cheapest is not a like-for-like substitute for the dearest. DeepInfra's listing is a promotional rate: 5% off its standard rate.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where thinkingmachines publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $71 – $95 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $102 – $140 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $393 – $420 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $242 – $255 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $249 – $290 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $93 – $105 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $125 – $130 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $367 – $480 |
Price history
Inkling 2 Small entered our daily price archive on 2026-11-14; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.30 input / $1.00 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-11-14. Last checked against the 2026-11-14 snapshot.
Alternatives to Inkling 2 Small
Inkling 2 Small carries no Arena score, so this page cannot place it against models of comparable quality. The alternatives below are its nearest neighbours on price in the Budget price tier.
- Next cheaper model in the Budget price tier: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking (Alibaba) at $0.787 blended, under 1% less.
- Next more expensive: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (Alibaba) at $0.797 blended, 1% more.
Other models from Thinking Machines
Thinking Machines has 2 other models in the catalogue. Prices per 1M tokens, input then output.
- Inkling Small: $0.45 / $1.20
- Inkling: $1.00 / $4.05
All 3 Thinking Machines models and prices
Common questions about Inkling 2 Small pricing
- How much does Inkling 2 Small cost?
- Inkling 2 Small costs $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.00 per 1M output tokens at Modal, the host whose rate we quote. Modal serves a quantized nvfp4 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. Prices as listed on 2026-11-14.
- Which host is cheapest for Inkling 2 Small?
- Cheapest host: PrimeIntellect at $0.15 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens, 50% below the price we quote on the blended price (30% input, 70% output). It serves a quantized fp4 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. A support ticket workload at 100K requests a month costs $47.50 there against $95.00 at the price we quote, a difference of $47.50 a month. The dearest, Cloudflare, charges 2.0x the cheapest. Host rates as listed on 2026-11-14.
- Does Inkling 2 Small offer batch or cached pricing?
- Yes, for prompt caching only. Cache reads cost $0.03 per 1M tokens, as listed on 2026-11-14. No batch pricing is published.
- What would Inkling 2 Small cost per month?
- With the Support Ticket profile (1,500 input and 500 output tokens per request), 100,000 requests a month cost about $95 on Inkling 2 Small at the list price quoted on 2026-11-14.
- Can Inkling 2 Small be self-hosted?
- No licence is recorded for Inkling 2 Small, so this page does not say whether it can be self-hosted.
- Has the price of Inkling 2 Small changed?
- Inkling 2 Small entered our daily price archive on 2026-11-14; tracking began on 2026-08-15. It listed at $0.30 input / $1.00 output per 1M tokens that day. No list price change since 2026-11-14. Last checked against the 2026-11-14 snapshot.
It publishes a prompt-cache rate, which is the discount most often left out of a budget: what prompt caching saves.
These are list prices. Your real cost also depends on caching and batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and the contracts you already have. OptimNow audits exactly that.
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