AI Model Atlas / Thinkingmachines
Inkling Small (batch)
One million input tokens cost $0.36 and one million output tokens $0.96. Context window: 524k tokens, about 874 A4 pages.
What it costs in practice
Pricing per million tokens doesn't mean anything to anyone, so I convert it to three tasks that people actually give to models. The usage assumptions are listed for each row so you can verify them.
| Task | Input | Output | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1500-word articlebrief plus finished text in English | 1,500 tokens | 2,200 tokens | $0.0027 |
| 100 chat queries700 tokens per question and 400 per answer | 70,000 tokens | 40,000 tokens | $0.06 |
| Hour of work with an agentagent reads repository and writes fixes | 250,000 tokens | 30,000 tokens | $0.12 |
Technical details
| Provider | Thinkingmachines |
| Modalities | text + image + audio → text |
| Context window | 524k tokens (~874 A4 pages) |
| Maximum response | 262k tokens |
| Step-by-step reasoning | yes |
| Tool calling | yes |
| Forced JSON format | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | not specified |
| Cache read | $0.080 per million |
| Content moderation | no extra filter |
How it compares to the rest
The database contains 469 models. In terms of input pricing Inkling Small (batch) is more expensive than 44 percent of paid models. A longer context window is available in 209 models.
Input price history
2026-09-08 · $0.502026-11-11 · $0.36
The chart shows the price of a million input tokens on consecutive measurement days. History starts on the day I launched the atlas and grows with each day. I don't backfill data.
Alternatives at a similar price
Models from other providers whose cost for the same article comes out closest.
| Model | Input / M | Output / M | 1500-word article | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beam 1.0 501B A23BReflection | $0.30 | $1.00 | $0.0027 | 1M |
| Qwen3 Coder 480B A35BQwen (Alibaba) | $0.30 | $1.00 | $0.0027 | 262k |
| Llama 3.1 70B InstructMeta | $0.72 | $0.72 | $0.0027 | 131k |
| Qwen3 VL 30B A3B ThinkingQwen (Alibaba) | $0.29 | $1.00 | $0.0026 | 262k |
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