# Inkling vs GLM 4.7 FP8

On provider list prices, GLM 4.7 FP8 costs $0.45 per million input tokens against $1.87 for Inkling: 4.2x apart. Output is $2 against $4.68 (2.3x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## Specifications

| | Inkling | GLM 4.7 FP8 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Thinking Machines | Zai Org |
| Access | Open weights | Open weights |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 198K tokens |
| List price, input | $1.87 / M tokens | $0.45 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $4.68 / M tokens | $2 / M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.37 / M tokens | n/a |
| License | Apache 2.0 | MIT |
| Fine-tunable | Yes | Yes |

Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-08. Billed price is list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## What the numbers say

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each. That workload costs $1,240 a month on GLM 4.7 FP8 and $3,882 on Inkling at list: a gap of $2,642, or 3.1x.

Inkling reads 1M tokens per request against 198K for GLM 4.7 FP8, 4.9x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

## Choose Inkling for

- The longer context window (1M vs 198K tokens)
- Fine-tuning under a permissive license (Apache 2.0)
- Published cached-input pricing ($0.37 per M tokens)

## Choose GLM 4.7 FP8 for

- The lower list price ($0.45 in / $2 out per M tokens)
- Fine-tuning under a permissive license (MIT)

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, Inkling or GLM 4.7 FP8?

GLM 4.7 FP8, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.45/$2 per million tokens in and out against $1.87/$4.68 for Inkling. Billed on Allocate: $0.48/$2.14 against $2.00/$5.01, list plus 7%.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Inkling: 1,000,000 tokens (1M) against 202,752 (198K) for GLM 4.7 FP8.

### Can I fine-tune Inkling or GLM 4.7 FP8?

Both publish open weights (Inkling: Apache 2.0; GLM 4.7 FP8: MIT), so both can be fine-tuned. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.

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