Inkling 2 Small API Pricing

These are the tracked rates, not a live quote. Hosted-provider choice, region, long-context tiers, caching, batch discounts, and temporary promotions can change the actual bill. Open-weight availability does not mean hosted inference is free. Workload examples assume the listed standard input and output rates, with no cache hits or discounts.

Publisher-reported pricing notes

• Second-generation mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters.
• Accepts text and image inputs, generates text, and supports variable reasoning effort.
• Current Tinker sampling prices are $0.30 per million prefill tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens for the listed variants.

Official release and model references

These references document the model and its release; not every reference is a pricing table. Confirm the applicable endpoint and billing tier with your inference provider before purchase.

• thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-2-small/
• thinkingmachines.ai/model-card/inkling-2-small/
• tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/models/models_and_pricing/

Computed straight from the list prices above — token counts are illustrative workload sizes, not measurements of Inkling 2 Small.

In AI IQ's scoring, Inkling 2 Small's list price is adjusted by a token-usage multiplier of 0.965, giving an effective cost of $1.25 per 1M input + output tokens. That places it #43 of 160 models on the effective-cost ranking (lower is cheaper). Some models spend far more tokens than others on the same task, so effective cost compares what a unit of work really costs. Method details are on the methodology page; see all models on the cost charts and the falling cost of intelligence over time.

Models with a lower effective cost that score within a few IQ points of Inkling 2 Small (IQ 126), or better.