inkling

inkling

Inkling is a general-purpose multimodal autoregressive transformer model from Thinking Machines Lab, supporting text, image, and audio inputs with text output. It is designed for a wide range of applications, including reasoning, coding, multilingual understanding, and multimodal interaction. Optimized for agentic workflows, tool use, coding assistants, chatbots, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and instruction following, Inkling provides a versatile foundation for production AI systems requiring robust language and multimodal capabilities.

Context: 1M tokens
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Pricing

Input$0 / 1M

Output$0 / 1M

Cache Write$0 / 1M

Cache Read$0 / 1M

Prompt cache writes and reads are included at no additional cost.

Quick Start

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Endpoint

python

from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",    base_url="https://api.apertis.ai/v1") response = client.chat.completions.create(    model="inkling",    messages=[        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}    ],    max_tokens=1024,    temperature=0.7) print(response.choices[0].message.content) # Optional: Enable context compression to reduce token usage# response = client.chat.completions.create(#     model="inkling",#     messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],#     extra_body={"compression": {"enabled": True, "model": "gpt-4.1-mini"}}# )

Supported Parameters

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Common7 params

modelmessagesmax_tokenstemperaturetop_pstreamtools

Extended4 params

reasoning_effortstream_optionsthinkingextra_body

Cursor IDE Model IDs

Use these namespaced identifiers in Cursor IDE to avoid conflicts with built-in models.

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