Inkling API

Inkling is a large language model by Inkling, available on the Venice API as inkling. It runs privately, with zero data retention.Inkling is a general-purpose multimodal model from Thinking Machines Lab that accepts text, image, and audio inputs and generates text. It is a 66-layer sparse MoE (975B total / 41B active) with hybrid local/global attention, 512K context, and variable thinking effort — suited for chat, coding, tool use, and agentic workflows. Video input is not supported on Venice.

Inkling API pricing

Model ID	Variant	Privacy	Price
`inkling`	Standard	Private	$1.25 input /$ 5.06 output per 1M tokens

Inkling specifications

Spec	Value
Provider	Inkling
Released	Jul 16, 2026
Privacy	Private
Open weights	Yes
Context window	512K tokens
Max output	64K tokens
Reasoning effort	none, low, medium, high
Served precision	FP8

How to use the Inkling API

Send requests to POST https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/chat/completions with "model": "inkling" and your API key.

curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "inkling",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain TEE attestation in two sentences." }],
    "reasoning_effort": "high"
  }'

Inkling API FAQ

How much does the Inkling API cost?

1.25 per 1M input tokens and

5.06 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $0.21 per 1M. Prices are in USD and can be paid in DIEM at parity.

What is the Inkling model ID?

Use inkling as the model parameter.

Is the Inkling API private?

Inkling is private: requests run on infrastructure Venice controls with zero data retention, and prompts and outputs are never stored or used for training.

What is the context window of Inkling?

512K tokens of context, with up to 64K output tokens per response.

What does Inkling support?

Inkling supports function calling, structured outputs, reasoning, image input, web search and prompt caching. Reasoning effort is adjustable with reasoning_effort: none, low, medium and high (default high).

Which endpoint does the Inkling API use?

Call POST /chat/completions. /responses (Alpha) is also supported.

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