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Independent benchmark scores for Inkling, measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better. Measurement mode: xhigh.
Inkling is an open-weight AI model by Thinkingmachines. You can download and self-host it for free; the prices below are hosted-API list prices, tracked hourly, for when you prefer convenience over self-hosting.
Inkling is an AI language model from Thinkingmachines. It is open-weight: you can download it and run it on your own hardware, for free. It scores 40.7 on the Artificial Analysis intelligence index.
The weights are free and open — you can self-host Inkling and pay nothing per token. If you prefer a hosted API, list prices are $1 per million input tokens and $4.05 per million output tokens.
Independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis give it GPQA 87.2%, Humanity's Last Exam 29.7%, Long Context Reasoning 63.3%, SciCode 46.1%, τ-Bench Banking 23.7%, Terminal-Bench 55.1%. It is particularly used for code generation.
It generates about 85.2 tokens per second, with a median 2.12s delay before the first token. Measured independently by Artificial Analysis.
Yes. Inkling has open weights, so you can download it and run it on your own GPU or server with tools like Ollama, vLLM or llama.cpp — with no per-token cost.