Thinking Machines Lab

Thinking Machines Lab is an AI research company (founded by Mira Murati) whose first product is Tinker — a cloud training API for researchers and developers. Tinker gives you full control over your data, algorithms, and models while it manages the GPU infrastructure: you author training loops locally with four primitives (forward_backward, optim_step, sample, save_state) and Tinker runs distributed LoRA fine-tuning across dense and Mixture-of-Experts models from 1B to 1T+ parameters. It supports SFT, reinforcement learning (GRPO, PPO), DPO, and distillation, shipped as an official Python SDK (tinker) plus the tinker-cookbook of recipes, a web console/playground, and OAuth 2.0 / OIDC authentication.

Thinking Machines Lab is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine-Learning, LLM, and Fine-Tuning.

Thinking Machines Lab’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, pricing, signup flow, and 23 more developer resources.

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36.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 15/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

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0 APIs

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Composite quality — 36.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 12.9 / 20

Access Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13

Contract Governance 0.5 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 15/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Thinking Machines Lab Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode/deviceCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

OAuthScopes

SecurityTxt

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

ChangeLog

Deprecation

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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description: 'Thinking Machines Lab is an AI research company (founded by Mira Murati) whose first product is Tinker — a cloud
  training API for researchers and developers. Tinker gives you full control over your data, algorithms, and models while
  it manages the GPU infrastructure: you author training loops locally with four primitives (forward_backward, optim_step,
  sample, save_state) and Tinker runs distributed LoRA fine-tuning across dense and Mixture-of-Experts models from 1B to 1T+
  parameters. It supports SFT, reinforcement learning (GRPO, PPO), DPO, and distillation, shipped as an official Python SDK
  (tinker) plus the tinker-cookbook of recipes, a web console/playground, and OAuth 2.0 / OIDC authentication.'
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