Inception Labs vs Thinking Machines Lab
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Inception Labs
The lab behind Mercury, the first commercially available diffusion LLM...
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Thinking Machines Lab
Mira Murati's frontier AI lab, whose first product Tinker is an API fo...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 |
| Capability | — | — |
| Value for money | — | — |
| Ease of use | — | — |
| ASEAN readiness | — | — |
| API quality | — | — |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Paid from | Usage-based API pricing (per token) | Usage-based Tinker API (access via waitlist) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2025 |
| Maker | Stefano Ermon, Aditya Grover, Volodymyr Kuleshov | Mira Murati |
| Verdict | What this is for: Diffusion-based LLMs (the Mercury family) that generate text and code in parallel, reaching roughly 1000 tokens per second, far faster than typical autoregressive models. Who this is for: Developers ne... |
What this is for: A frontier research lab whose first shipped product, Tinker, is an API for fine-tuning open-weight language models with fine-grained control over data and algorithms. Who this is for: ML engineers and... |
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