Inkling Small API Pricing
thinkingmachines · Budget · released 2026-07. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
Inkling Small has held the same list price since 2026-08-15 and is the 116th cheapest of 142 Budget models. Only one host, DeepInfra, sells it, so there is no second price to shop. No Arena score is published for it, so it carries no Efficiency score and cannot hold the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.45 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.20 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: $0.10
- Context window: 524K
Inkling Small market position
On blended price ($0.975 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 18% of Budget models: 116th cheapest of 142. Across every category it is cheaper than 59% of priced text models in the catalogue: 116th cheapest of 281.
Inkling Small licence, size and capabilities
No licence is recorded for Inkling Small, so this page does not say whether it can be self-hosted. Its published size is 12B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision, Audio, Reasoning, Code, Agents. Filling its 524K context window once costs $0.24 in input tokens at list price.
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 the provider 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 | $96 – $128 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $137 – $186 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $559 – $594 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $311 – $329 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $323 – $375 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $124 – $140 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $167 – $174 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $483 – $630 |
Inkling Small pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 1 host. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
DeepInfra is the only host with a published rate, $0.45 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens, which is the price shown on this page. It serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra (the price shown above) — fp8 | $0.45 | $1.20 |
Inkling Small price history
Inkling Small has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.45 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
Alternatives to Inkling Small
- Next cheaper Budget model: Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (Alibaba) at $0.959 blended, 2% less.
- Next more expensive: GLM 5.3 FlashX (Zhipu) at $0.986 blended, 1% more.
Common questions about Inkling Small pricing
- How much does Inkling Small cost?
- Inkling Small costs $0.45 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Inkling Small offer batch or cached pricing?
- Prompt-cache reads cost $0.10/M input tokens. No batch pricing is published.
- What would Inkling Small cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Inkling Small costs about $128 at list prices.
- Has the price of Inkling Small changed?
- Inkling Small has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.45 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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