Inkling

Pricing — 1 offering(s)

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Capability profile

Operator guidance

Too new for benchmark-backed routing guidance — no independent evaluation data exists yet (see capability_profile). The model card positions it for general-purpose multimodal-input (text/image/audio) conversational and coding-assistant use, at a currently promotion-discounted price on Tinker, the only platform serving it today. Re-evaluate once real benchmark data and non-promotional pricing are available — this entry's price and positioning are both likely to move.

Use cases

• General-purpose conversational use, instruction-following, and other natural language and multimodal tasks
• Coding assistants
• Chatbots
• RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) systems

Limitations

• May exhibit hallucination and imprecise instruction-following (thinkingmachines.ai/model-card/inkling/)
• Degraded performance in long multi-turn conversations, per the model card
• Not recommended for medical, legal, or safety-critical decision-making without additional fine-tuning, per the model card
• No independent benchmark scores published anywhere as of 2026-07-16 — capability ratings above are all 'unknown', not a documented weakness so much as an evaluation gap
• Only served today at 64K/256K context via Tinker, not the full 1,000,000-token architectural context window this entry's context_window field states
• Current pricing reflects a stated 'limited-time 50% discount' on Tinker — treat the registry's current price as temporary, not a stable baseline

Citations

• Inkling — Thinking Machines Lab
• Inkling: Our open-weights model — Thinking Machines Lab
• Inkling model card — Thinking Machines Lab
• thinkingmachines/Inkling — Hugging Face
• Models & Pricing — Tinker Documentation