What is the context window of Thinking Machines: Inkling?

Thinking Machines: Inkling supports a context window of 524K tokens.

Is Thinking Machines: Inkling free to use?

Thinking Machines: Inkling is a paid model. It costs $1.00 per million input tokens and $4.05 per million output tokens.

How is LLM API pricing calculated?

LLM pricing has two components: input tokens (everything you send) and output tokens (what the model generates). Total cost = (prompt tokens × input rate + output tokens × output rate) / 1,000,000 × number of requests.

Thinking Machines: Inkling API Pricing — $1.00 Input / $4.05 Output per 1M Tokens

Q: How much does Thinking Machines: Inkling cost?

Thinking Machines: Inkling costs $1.00 per million input tokens and $4.05 per million output tokens via OpenRouter. Pricing was last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Thinking Machines: Inkling by Thinkingmachines — $1.00 input / $4.05 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 524K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Input / 1M tokens

$1.00

Output / 1M tokens

$4.05

Provider

Thinkingmachines

Context window

524K tokens

Via

OpenRouter

Cost at common usage volumes

Usage	Daily	Monthly
Chatbot (100/day)	$0.556	$16.69
Small app (1K/day)	$3.02	$90.75
Mid-scale (10K/day)	$40.25	$1207.50
Large scale (100K/day)	$905.00	$27150.00

Model ID: thinkingmachines/inkling
Data source: OpenRouter public API — updated Oct 29, 2026.

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About Thinking Machines: Inkling

Thinking Machines: Inkling is an LLM developed by Thinkingmachines. Input costs $1.00 per million tokens and output costs $4.05 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 524K tokens.

Pricing Details

Via the OpenRouter API:

Input tokens: $1.00 per 1 million tokens
Output tokens: $4.05 per 1 million tokens

A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.

How Much Does Thinking Machines: Inkling Cost?

For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):

Daily cost: $3.0250
Monthly cost: $90.750

Accessing Thinking Machines: Inkling via OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including Thinking Machines: Inkling. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is thinkingmachines/inkling.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Thinking Machines: Inkling is available on OpenRouter with the model ID thinkingmachines/inkling. OpenRouter provides a unified API compatible with OpenAI's SDK format.