Inkling Small (BaseTen) API

Pricing

Input / 1M	$0.50
Output / 1M	$1.20
Blended / 1M	$1.7
Cached input / 1M	$0.10
Context window	1,048,576 tokens
Max output	32,768 tokens

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Price verified 2026-09-10 (0 days ago) · sourcecorroborated

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Sources

Source	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Verified
OpenRouter	$0.50	$1.20	2026-09-10
LiteLLM	$0.50	$1.20	2026-09-07
models.dev	$0.50	$1.20	2026-09-07
Together	$0.50	$1.20	2026-09-07

Two independent sources agree within 20%.

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Call it

OpenAI-compatible endpoint — set BASETEN_API_KEY.

curl https://inference.baseten.co/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BASETEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "thinkingmachines/inkling-small",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'

from openai import OpenAI  # pip install openai

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://inference.baseten.co/v1",
    api_key="...",  # BASETEN_API_KEY
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="thinkingmachines/inkling-small",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Price unchanged since 2026-09-10 — 1 point on record.

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