Thinking Machines Tinker vs Modal vs OpenAI API vs Fireworks AI

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Thinking Machines Tinker
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Modal
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OpenAI API
Competitor 3
Fireworks AI
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Thinking Machines Tinker
thinkingmachines.ai
A training API that hands control of model fine-tuning to researchers while someone else deals with the servers and scaling headaches
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Competitor Modal
modal.com
Run AI code without infrastructure
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Competitor OpenAI API
platform.openai.com
The API powering the AI ecosystem
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Competitor Fireworks AI
fireworks.ai
Production AI infrastructure
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
1.1Mvisits/mo
972.8Kvisits/mo
15.2Mvisits/mo
713.6Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 181.3%
▲ 5.7%
▲ 4.6%
▼ 21.1%
6-month growth
+372.8%
+13.6%
-2.4%
+62.9%
Global rank web
#55,584
#43,856
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#55,462
Avg. last 3 months
672K
960K
15.2M
743.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
51%
37%
34%
43%
Pages / visit
2.6
6.6
5.4
3.6
Visit duration
1m 57s
5m 31s
3m 56s
2m 40s
Traffic sources
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 15%
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 5%
● Direct 82% · ● Referral 15%
● Direct 91% · ● Referral 6%
Thinking Machines TinkerModalOpenAI APIFireworks AI
04.7M9.4M14.1M18.7MThinking Machines Tinker · 421.8KThinking Machines Tinker · 345.6KThinking Machines Tinker · 223.7KThinking Machines Tinker · 298.7KThinking Machines Tinker · 303.2KThinking Machines Tinker · 582.5KThinking Machines Tinker · 375.9KThinking Machines Tinker · 1.1MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8KOpenAI API · 18.7MOpenAI API · 16.7MOpenAI API · 16.5MOpenAI API · 15.6MOpenAI API · 15.9MOpenAI API · 15.1MOpenAI API · 15.7MOpenAI API · 14.6MOpenAI API · 15.2MFireworks AI · 224.6KFireworks AI · 250KFireworks AI · 355.9KFireworks AI · 323.2KFireworks AI · 438.1KFireworks AI · 720.8KFireworks AI · 610.7KFireworks AI · 613.3KFireworks AI · 904KFireworks AI · 713.6K100K1M10M100MThinking Machines Tinker · 421.8KThinking Machines Tinker · 345.6KThinking Machines Tinker · 223.7KThinking Machines Tinker · 298.7KThinking Machines Tinker · 303.2KThinking Machines Tinker · 582.5KThinking Machines Tinker · 375.9KThinking Machines Tinker · 1.1MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8KOpenAI API · 18.7MOpenAI API · 16.7MOpenAI API · 16.5MOpenAI API · 15.6MOpenAI API · 15.9MOpenAI API · 15.1MOpenAI API · 15.7MOpenAI API · 14.6MOpenAI API · 15.2MFireworks AI · 224.6KFireworks AI · 250KFireworks AI · 355.9KFireworks AI · 323.2KFireworks AI · 438.1KFireworks AI · 720.8KFireworks AI · 610.7KFireworks AI · 613.3KFireworks AI · 904KFireworks AI · 713.6KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
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$250per month · free tier available
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Free tier
Free tier
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Plans
Inkling-Small Prefill $0.58/usage-basedInkling-Small Sample $0.12/usage-basedVarious Model Training Custom/usage-based
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
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Starter $1/moServerless Inference CustomOn-Demand Deployments $0.13/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
DataCode
Code
DocumentsImagesTextAudio
TextImagesCode
Output
Text
Apps
AudioCodeImagesTextVideo
TextCode
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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7
APIs
Developer tools
LLM development
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Fine-Tuning
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Inference
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Development
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GPU infrastructure
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Large language models
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Chatbot building
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