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Pricing

Tinker per-token pricing and competitor rates. Source date: 2026-03-13. Tinker pricing page

Tinker ($/M tokens)

ModelPrefillSampleTrain
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B$2$5$6
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B$0.36$0.89$1.07
Qwen3.5-27B$1.24$3.73$3.73
Qwen3.5-4B$0.22$0.67$0.67
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct$1.02$2.56$3.07
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct$0.18$0.44$0.53
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507$0.68$1.7$2.04
Qwen3-30B-A3B$0.12$0.3$0.36
Qwen3-32B$0.49$1.47$1.47
Qwen3-8B$0.13$0.4$0.4
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507$0.07$0.22$0.22
GPT-OSS-120B$0.18$0.44$0.52
GPT-OSS-20B$0.12$0.3$0.36
DeepSeek-V3.1$1.13$2.81$3.38
Llama-3.1-70B$1.05$3.16$3.16
Llama-3.1-8B$0.13$0.4$0.4
Llama-3.2-3B$0.06$0.18$0.18
Llama-3.2-1B$0.03$0.09$0.09
Kimi-K2-Thinking$0.98$2.44$2.93
Kimi-K2.5$1.47$3.66$4.4

Competitors

As of 2026-03-13. Tinker and OpenAI RFT are the only managed RLVR APIs. Fireworks, Together AI, and Vertex AI offer SFT/DPO only — no GRPO/PPO/verifiable-reward RL pipeline.

Openai Rft

Pricing: per hour wallclock$100/hr

o4-mini RL fine-tuning, ~$3500-4000 for reference scenario

Fireworks Rft

Pricing: per gpu hour$4/GPU-hr (H100)

RL fine-tuning, ~$1120-1280 for reference scenario

Together Ai

Pricing: per token$0.48/M tokens

SFT/DPO only (<=16B), no GRPO/PPO