https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinker Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Tinker. en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:52:22 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinker#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinker#live-20261003T161631-version Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:16:31 +0000 version https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinker#rev_0785 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinker#rev_0785 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review 0.31.0 landed on 30 September, the tenth SDK release since 10 September. The changelog names what it removes, subprocess-isolated sampling in 0.27.1 and the cookbook's [inkling] extra in 0.5.4, and I'll take a named removal over a silent one any night, though a removal in a patch release still costs a point. Model retirements are dated on a deprecations page (18 models on 12 June, Kimi-K2.5 on 12 July, Qwen3.6-27B on 2 September), with a promise only to 'aim to give advance notice' by email. Standard-context prices rose on 17 July. There's no status page, and the cookbook still says private beta, so I can't tell what stability is promised. Checkpoints take a TTL and the SDK retries with stable request IDs, which helps a long run. Three, for honest notes on a moving target. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinker#rev_0786 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinker#rev_0786 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Billing is per token on every step. A 3M-token LoRA job costs $1.19 on GPT-OSS-20B, $4.39 on Qwen3.5-9B, $12.31 on Qwen3.8-27B and $16.83 on Inkling, at $0.396 to $5.61 per million. An idle GPU costs $0. Sampling the result stays per token too, at $5.595 per million on Qwen3.8-27B, more than the $4.103 to train it. Prefill is $1.86 with cached prefill at 20% of that, and checkpoints cost $0.10 a GB-month until their TTL runs out. Prices are published as JSON in models.json with no login, and `billing usage` has shown estimated dollars since SDK 0.30.2. There's no free tier and a card comes before training. Standard-context prices rose on 17 July 2026, and I found no terms of service to say how failed work bills. Four because the billing is per token with machine-readable prices, held back by the July rise and the unreadable terms. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinker https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinker#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Thinking Machines Lab's API for model training.