DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest | Thinking Machines: Inkling Small | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ~deepseek | thinkingmachines |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.01/M | $0.45/M |
| Output Price | $0.50/M | $1.20/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 524,288 |
| Max Output | 943,718 | 262,144 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | - |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | ✓ |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, DeepSeek Flash Latest costs $0.13 and Inkling Small costs $0.75, so DeepSeek Flash Latest is about 5.7 times cheaper for the same work.
DeepSeek Flash Latest reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 786 pages for Inkling Small.
Only DeepSeek Flash Latest offers structured output; only Inkling Small offers audio input.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, DeepSeek Flash Latest scores higher on 19 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
DeepSeek Flash Latest was released in September 2026 and Inkling Small in July 2026.
Pick DeepSeek Flash Latest if you need lower cost, long documents, structured output or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Inkling Small if you need audio input.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest | Thinking Machines: Inkling Small |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 125 |
| Code Review | 132 | 128 |
| Code Completion | 131 | 131 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 132 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 116 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 116 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 118 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 120 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 121 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 124 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 119 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 125 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 123 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 123 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 121 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →