thinkingmachines · Open weights
Inkling
The non-thinking version of Thinking Machines' 975B-parameter open-weights Mixture-of-Experts generalist with 41B active parameters. It gives faster direct answers across text, images, and audio, and is built for agentic coding, tool use, detailed instruction following, and long-context work.
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- Audio input
- Input
- Text, Images, Audio
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $1.00
- Output
- $4.05
- Cache read
- $0.17
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 32.8K
- Average output (7 days)
- 596 tokens
- Longer than 55% of 465 models
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Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
Intelligence Index
25.0
Tested at xhigh reasoning effort
Better than 61% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
52.1Composite of the coding evaluations
Better than 50% of 168 scored models
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
5.0%Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
Better than 30% of 173 scored models
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
0.3%Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
Better than 19% of 173 scored models
Harvey LAB-AAv1.1
0.0%Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination
Better than 0% of 29 scored models
AA-Briefcasev1.1
832 EloAgentic knowledge work, rated head to head
Better than 31% of 166 scored models
GDPval-AAv2.1
1,072 EloEconomically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
Better than 43% of 187 scored models
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
12.8%Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
Better than 56% of 171 scored models
AA-LCRv1.1
77.3%Reasoning across long documents
Better than 63% of 309 scored models
MLCR-AA
6.1%Long-context reasoning over medical records
Better than 23% of 121 scored models
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
31.9%Expert-level questions across academic fields
Better than 65% of 323 scored models
GPQA Diamond
87.2%Graduate-level science questions
Better than 69% of 291 scored models
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
1.0%Practical software engineering in a terminal
Better than 37% of 171 scored models
SciCode
47.0%Scientific computing in Python
Better than 38% of 174 scored models
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
77.3%Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
Better than 63% of 309 scored models
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Inkling was tested at xhigh reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- #15EQ-Bench 41216
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 0.0%
- About $1.00 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "thinkingmachines/inkling",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="thinkingmachines/inkling",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)thinkingmachines
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