inkling-256kThinking Machines
- api
- chat
- hosting
- US
- model lab
- Thinking Machines
- weights
- open
- added
- July 2026
- model id
- thinkingmachines/inkling-256k
capabilities 4/8
- input
- $1.87
- output
- $4.68
- cache write
- -
- cache read
- $0.37
worked cost
| volume | cost |
|---|---|
| 100K in + 10K out | $0.23 |
| 1M in + 100K out | $2.34 |
| 10M in + 1M out | $23.38 |
Requesty charges what the upstream provider charges, with no markup and no per-request fee. Prompt caching and smart routing cut the effective cost further on repeated context. Gateway pricing
no measured traffic for this endpoint yet. pricing above is the provider's own
no published scores for this exact variant. region deployments and highspeed tiers usually share the base model's results
- retention
- yes
- trains on prompts
- no
- hosted in
- US
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thinkingmachines/inkling-256kthis id pins the thinking machines deployment, with no routing and no failover. the managed id on the canonical page routes across all 1 providers instead
from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( api_key="YOUR_REQUESTY_API_KEY", base_url="https://router.requesty.ai/v1",) response = client.chat.completions.create( model="thinkingmachines/inkling-256k", messages=[ {"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one paragraph."}, ],) print(response.choices[0].message.content)
Change the base url to https://router.requesty.ai/v1, use your Requesty key, set the model to the id above. Existing OpenAI SDK code needs no other edit, and the same key reaches every other model in the catalog. Browse all models
Inkling 256K is the extended context variant of Inkling, a large MoE hybrid reasoning model from Thinking Machines with audio and vision input support and a 256K context window.
questions 5
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| endpoint | ctx | in /M |
|---|---|---|
| inkling | 66K | $1.87 |
call inkling-256k through one endpoint
One key for this endpoint and 600+ other models. No markup on provider prices, automatic failover when a provider degrades, and prompt caching built in. Methodology