Thinking Machines

Inkling

Thinking Machines’ first frontier model.

#471released Jul 14, 2026·Proprietary·Not disclosed
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Intelligence
31.7 #471
AAQI 41.0
Output Speed
81 t/s
TTFT 1.82 s · ITL 12.3 ms/tok
Blended price (3:1)
$1.762 /1M
In $1/M · Out $4.05/M
Context
524K
≈ 1,310 A4 pages · max out 8,192

Quality Domain Radar

6-Axis Frontier Evaluation vs Category Average & Flagship

Inkling
Claude Mythos Preview (#1)
Average (68)
Coding (33.8)Mathematics (27.7)Hard Science (GPQA) (37.3)Agentic & Tool Use (35.7)Knowledge (MMLU) (15)Vision / Multimodal (30)

Radar axes are approximated from category scores where direct benchmark measurements are missing — see Methodology.

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Model Details

Release date
Jul 14, 2026
Parameters
Not disclosed
License
Proprietary
Context Window
524,000 tokens
Input Price
$1/M
Output Price
$4.05/M
Output Speed
81 t/s
Time to First Token
1.82 s

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@misc{llmpodium2026inkling,
  title = {Benchmark Analysis and Intelligence Evaluation of Inkling},
  author = {LLMPodium Research},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://llmpodium.com/models/inkling}
}

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