Inkling Small pricing and routing profile
Inkling Small from Thinkingmachines lists at $0.45 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens, with a 524,288-token context window. Prices from OpenRouter's catalogue on 2026-09-28.
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Cost per 1,000 requests
| Request shape | List cost |
|---|---|
| Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out) | $0.282 |
| Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out) | $1.38 |
| Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out) | $4.20 |
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Can Gimbix route to it first?
Not as a first-answer model through OpenRouter: no host returns token log probabilities for Inkling Small. It can still be the model Gimbix falls back to when a cheaper model is unsure.
Cheaper models that can answer first
Models priced below Inkling Small that expose a confidence signal. Whether they answer your traffic as well is what a Gimbix pilot measures.
| Model | Input / output per 1M | Cheaper on a chat reply |
|---|---|---|
| MiMo-V2.5-Pro | $0.435 / $0.87 | 12% |
| GLM 5.3 | $0.33 / $1.20 | 17% |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.30 / $1.20 | 22% |
| MiniMax M3 | $0.30 / $1.20 | 22% |
| MiniMax M2.7 | $0.30 / $1.20 | 22% |
| MiniMax M2 | $0.30 / $1.20 | 22% |
Questions
How much does Inkling Small cost?
Inkling Small lists at $0.45 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens on OpenRouter as of 2026-09-28. A typical chat reply of 2,000 input and 400 output tokens costs about $1.38 per 1,000 requests.
What is the context window of Inkling Small?
524,288 tokens.
Can a cheaper model replace Inkling Small?
Sometimes. Gimbix proves it on your own traffic before routing: the cheaper model must match Inkling Small on one half of your requests and make at most three answers worse on the other.