Inkling Small
AI model by Thinking Machines. Real-time pricing and benchmark data.
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Editorial Analysis
Profile. Inkling Small is a budget-tier option from Thinking Machines at $1.20/M output tokens. Despite the low price, it scores competitively on Coding Index (52.9) and Intelligence Index (41.2) — making it a candidate for high-volume production workloads where unit cost dominates.
Latency. On latency, Inkling Small reports 107 tok/s output speed and 2710ms time-to-first-token. Output speed is in the normal range — most chat and completion applications will be token-bound, not streaming-bound.
Cost model. For a workload of 1M input tokens + 100K output tokens, Inkling Small costs $0.42 per million input-equivalent requests. Multiply by your monthly request volume to project the bill, and compare against the speed/correctness profile above to decide if the trade-off is worth it for your workload.
Editorial summary generated from public pricing and benchmark data (Artificial Analysis API). All numbers are sourced — see the Artificial Analysis methodology for benchmark definitions. Last refreshed 2026-09-06.
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