Inkling

Thinking MachinesMCP Tool CallReasoning
thinkingmachines/inklingOpen Weights

Multimodal MoE reasoning model (975B total, 41B active) for text, image, and audio

Benchmark Pricing$1.87 / 1M in$4.68 / 1M out$0.37 cache read
Context: 1,048,576 tokens•Max Output: 1,048,576 tokens•Released: 2026-07-15

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Context Window1,048,5761M tokens
Max Output1,048,5761M tokens
LicenseApache-2.0Self-hostable
Input Modalities
TextVisionAudio
Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)
Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema

MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS

✓ Inkling natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.

MCP Context Window Recommendations

With a context capacity of 1,048,576 tokens, this model can handle extremely large MCP resource manifests, complete database schemas, and multiple active server tool definitions simultaneously without degradation.

API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE

// Example: Calling Inkling via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.THINKINGMACHINES_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "thinkingmachines/inkling",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

PRICING BY PROVIDER

15 providers
Thinking Machinesthinkingmachines/Inkling
$1.87 / $4.68$0.37 cache
Fireworks AIaccounts/fireworks/models/inkling
$1.00 / $4.05$0.17 cache
NanoGPTthinkingmachines/inkling
$0.95 / $4.05$0.16 cache
Charm Hyperinkling
$1.09 / $4.41$0.19 cache
AI/ML APIthinkingmachines/inkling
$1.38 / $5.57$0.23 cache
LLMTRthinkingmachines/inkling
$1.87 / $4.68$0.37 cache
Venice AIinkling
$0.56 / $1.50$0.13 cache
Basetenthinkingmachines/inkling
$1.00 / $4.05
Abacusthinkingmachines/Inkling
$3.74 / $9.36$0.75 cache
Vercel AI Gatewaythinkingmachines/inkling
$1.00 / $4.05$0.17 cache
Eden AIdatabricks/databricks-inkling
$1.00 / $4.05$0.10 cache
Merge Gatewaythinkingmachines/inkling
$1.00 / $4.05$0.17 cache
Hugging Facethinkingmachines/Inkling
$1.00 / $4.05
Together AIthinkingmachines/Inkling
$1.00 / $4.05$0.17 cache
Kilo Gatewaythinkingmachines/inkling
$0.95 / $4.05$0.16 cache

Rates in USD per 1M tokens. Rates synchronized from models.dev public catalog.

Prompt Caching Active

This model supports prompt caching at $0.37 / 1M tokens, saving up to 80% on repetitive MCP tool definitions and system instructions.