Thinkingmachinesinkling-2-small

Thinking Machines: Inkling 2 Small API Pricing

Inkling 2 Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts reasoning model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 17B active parameters out of 594B total. It is the first model in the second...

Base Input Price$0.30/ 1M tokens

Base Output Price$1.00/ 1M tokens

Prompt Cache Read$0.030-90% discount

Batch API RateN/A24h async offload

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Provider Name	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Prompt Caching	Access Endpoint
Thinkingmachines Direct	$0.30	$1.00	Supported	Connect
OpenRouter	$0.30	$1.00	Supported	Connect

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