# Inkling

Inkling is a language model from Thinking Machines with a 1M-token context window. Provider list price is $1.87 per million input tokens and $4.68 per million output; on Allocate you pay $2.00 and $5.01 with the 7% transaction fee. The weights are open under Apache 2.0, so you can fine-tune it and own the result.

## Pricing

| | Provider list | On Allocate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Input, per M tokens | $1.87 | $2.00 |
| Output, per M tokens | $4.68 | $5.01 |
| Cached input, per M tokens | $0.37 | $0.40 |

Token usage bills at the provider list price plus the 7% transaction fee. Prices checked 2026-07-08.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Lab | Thinking Machines |
| Modality | Language |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| License | Apache 2.0 |
| Open weights | Yes |
| Fine-tunable | Yes, on your data |
| Catalog id | thinkingmachines/inkling |

## What a real workload costs

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each: 1,200M input and 350M output tokens. At list prices that is 1,200 × $1.87 + 350 × $4.68 = $3,882 a month. Billed on Allocate it is $4,154 with the 7% transaction fee.

## Common questions

### How much does Inkling cost per million tokens?

Provider list price is $1.87 per million input tokens and $4.68 per million output tokens. On Allocate you pay list plus the 7% transaction fee: $2.00 in and $5.01 out.

### What context window does Inkling have?

1,000,000 tokens (1M). At roughly 0.75 words per token, that is about 750k words of English text per request.

### What does cached input cost on Inkling?

$0.37 per million tokens at list ($0.40 billed). Repeated prompt prefixes, such as a stable system prompt or tool definitions, bill at this rate instead of the full input price.

### Can I fine-tune Inkling?

Yes. Inkling is an open-weights model under the Apache 2.0 license. The license is permissive, so the fine-tuned weights are yours to use commercially. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.

### How do I call Inkling on Allocate?

Send thinkingmachines/inkling in the model field of the OpenAI-compatible endpoint at api.allocate.network/v1, or point a route name (like prod/support-agent) at it so you can swap the model later without a deploy.

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