thinkingmachinesReleased Jul 15, 2026

Thinking Machines: Inkling

Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning, coding, agentic and tool-use systems,...

Context window1M
Max output471.9K
Provider endpoints6
Benchmark results11
Measured performance

Benchmark results

All leaderboards ↗
832.43

Effort: xhigh · Xhigh

Independent result
1,076.19

Effort: xhigh · Xhigh

Independent result
AutomationBench-AA ↗AA Index 4.3.2 collection
4.98%

Effort: xhigh · Xhigh

Independent result
SciCode ↗AA Index 4.3.2 collection
46.99%AA · Under review

Effort: xhigh · Xhigh

Independent result
GDP.pdf ↗AA Index 4.3.2 collection
12.8%

Effort: xhigh · Xhigh

Independent result
CritPt ↗AA Index 4.3.2 collection
5.43%AA · Under review

Effort: xhigh · Xhigh

Independent result
AA-Omniscience ↗AA Index 4.3.2 collection
2

Effort: xhigh · Xhigh

Independent result
77.33%

Effort: xhigh · Xhigh

Independent result
Provider measurements

Speed

1 configuration
≈10K input tokens1 requestmedian / 72h

Artificial Analysis · first-party providers · serving endpoint not reported

Thinking Machines

Inkling (Xhigh)

Reasoning xhigh

Output rate
197.032 tok/s
Time to first chunk
1.80238 s
Last checked Source ↗
Methodology 2.2.0 & measurement details

First chunk includes request processing and network time, and may include reasoning.

Prompt
long · ≈10,000 input tokens
Parallel requests
1
Minimum answer
1,500 tokens
Aggregation
median over 72 hours
Token counting
o200k_base
Benchmark client
Google Cloud us-central1-a
Serving endpoint
Not reported
Serving region
Not reported
Sample size
Not reported
Window end
Not reported
Access & cost

Prices across providers

6 quotes

Your token mix

USD · listed token rates

OpenRouter

Catalog quote
Input
$1.00
Output
$4.05
Cached input
$0.17
USD / 1M tokens
524.3K context471.9K max outputPrice source ↗Checked Oct 17, 2026
Endpoint IDthinkingmachines/inkling

together

via Hugging Face
Input
$1.00
Output
$4.05
USD / 1M tokens
524.3K contextPrice source ↗Checked Oct 17, 2026
Endpoint IDthinkingmachines/Inkling

deepinfra

via Hugging Face
Input
$0.95
Output
$4.05
USD / 1M tokens
524.3K contextPrice source ↗Checked Oct 17, 2026
Endpoint IDthinkingmachines/Inkling

DeepInfra

via OpenRouter

deepinfra/fp8 · quantization=fp8

Input
$0.95
Output
$4.05
Cached input
$0.16
USD / 1M tokens
524.3K context262.1K max outputPrice source ↗Checked Oct 17, 2026
Endpoint IDthinkingmachines/inkling::deepinfra/fp8

Together

via OpenRouter

together

Input
$1.00
Output
$4.05
Cached input
$0.17
USD / 1M tokens
524.3K context471.9K max outputPrice source ↗Checked Oct 17, 2026
Endpoint IDthinkingmachines/inkling::together

Model specifications

Developer
thinkingmachines
Modality
Language
Context
1,048,576 tokens
Maximum output
471,859 tokens
Weights
Open weights
Released
Jul 15, 2026
Provider listed
Jul 14, 2026
First discovered
Oct 16, 2026

Exact identities

  • openrouterthinkingmachines/inkling
  • huggingfacethinkingmachines/Inkling
  • artificial-analysis0de09623-2b1a-4c8d-86ef-7f5245d4e24b

Sources

Updated Oct 17, 2026

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