Inkling

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Inkling is a multimodal chat model by Thinking Machines built for text, image, and audio understanding, with support for tool use, thinking, and structured outputs across a 524,288-token context window.

Context tokens

524,288

Output tokens

8,192

Docs

Model documentation

Released

Jul 15, 2026

Schema

Inkling supports controllable thinking effort, allowing you to balance response depth against speed and cost. It reasons natively over text, images, and audio.

Schema documentation

Capabilities

Tool use

Structured output

Thinking

Multimodal

Supported input media

audio

image

text

Supported tools

No tools enabled.

Pricing

Type	Credits	Units
Input	13.30	Credits per 1k tokens
Output	53.87	Credits per 1k tokens
Cache hit	2.26	Credits per 1k tokens

Variants