Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning, coding, agentic and tool-use systems,...
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Thinking Machines: Inkling holds the #145 spot for context size out of 412 chat models in the CoreAI catalog — 524K tokens, roughly 393,216 words or 786 pages of text in a single conversation. On price, it is the #124 cheapest of 198 standard-tier models by input cost. It joined the catalog on 2026-07-17. It supports step-by-step reasoning (thinking mode) and accepts image input.
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A typical question (about 1,000 tokens in, 500 out) runs $0.00302 on Thinking Machines: Inkling's raw per-token rates; a heavy session with a 50K-token document costs about $0.070. On CoreAI you don't juggle these numbers — one subscription covers Thinking Machines: Inkling and 300+ other models under a plan usage limit, with no API keys. See plans.
Thinking Machines: Inkling handles 524K tokens of context — roughly 393,216 words, or about 786 pages of text in one conversation.
Thinking Machines: Inkling's underlying rates are $1 per 1M input tokens and $4.05 per 1M output tokens. On CoreAI it is included in one subscription alongside 300+ models, so there is no per-token billing to manage.
Yes — Thinking Machines: Inkling accepts image input, so you can attach screenshots, photos or diagrams and ask questions about them.
Yes. Thinking Machines: Inkling can work through problems step by step before answering; on CoreAI you can toggle thinking mode per message.
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The closest alternatives on CoreAI are Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch), MiniMax: MiniMax M3, Mistral: Mistral Nemo — similar tier and capability. The fastest way to choose is running one prompt through them side by side in CoreAI's Compare view.
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