Inkling Small
openrouter The API that serves this model and sets the prices shown here. thinkingmachines/inkling-small The model identifier to send in API requests. LLM Generates text from a prompt, so it can be compared with other LLMs on price and capability. Small The fast, low-latency tier of a model family, suited to high-volume or simple tasks.Provider: thinkingmachines · served via OpenRouter
Nothing to act on today. The cost is the checking: someone has to remember to look again next month, and the month after. Coolhand watches this model for you and automatically updates your agents to the most compatible replacement the moment a retirement is announced — one less thing on your list, permanently.
Sticker prices & cost-per-token
List rates as published by OpenRouter, before any volume or enterprise discounts.
$0.45
$1.20
1,048,576 tokens
262,144
tokens per response (includes reasoning tokens)
$0.10
Get this data free
Want to stay updated on price changes on this model? Pull this data free (no API key required) here:
curl "https://coolhandlabs.com/api/v2/inference_apis?q%5Bmodel_eq%5D=thinkingmachines%2Finkling-small&q%5Bsource_api_eq%5D=openrouter"Pricing History
| Effective | Price |
|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2026 – present | Input cost: $0.45 / 1M, Output cost: $1.20 / 1M, Cached input cost: $0.10 / 1M, Cache creation cost: $0.00 / 1M, 5-minute cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, 1-hour cache write cost: $0.00 / 1M, Reasoning output cost: $0.00 / 1M, Cache storage cost: $0.00 / 1M/hr |
History
No automated scan changes recorded yet.
| Date | Changed by | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2026 | Unknown | Initial record created |
Source
https://models.dev/api.json (models.dev provider 'openrouter', bulk import 2026-08-13)Comparable models
No comparable models identified yet.
Reliability
No reliability incidents recorded in the last 90 days.
Frequently asked questions
Inkling Small (thinkingmachines via OpenRouter) costs $0.45 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens, as last published by OpenRouter.
Inkling Small has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (the maximum combined input and output it can handle in a single request).
Inkling Small sits in the small size tier. Size tiers run from micro (small enough to run on a device) through small, medium and large to extra large (frontier flagships), and are assigned from the model's family, naming and limits rather than its price.
Inkling Small can generate up to 262,144 tokens in a single response. Reasoning (thinking) tokens count toward this limit.
Inkling Small accepts audio, image, and text as input and produces text as output, as recorded in the Coolhand catalog.
No, Inkling Small is currently active with no announced deprecation date.
Call GET https://coolhandlabs.com/api/v2/inference_apis?q[source_api_eq]=openrouter&q[model_eq]=thinkingmachines%2Finkling-small — free, no API key required, and scoped to just this model since source_api and model together are unique. See https://coolhandlabs.com/docs for the full REST API reference.
Track LLM pricing and deprecations automatically.
Start free