DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs $0.38 and Inkling Small costs $0.75, so DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is about 2.0 times cheaper for the same work.

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 786 pages for Inkling Small.

Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp offers structured output; only Inkling Small offers audio input.

On our blended benchmark score DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp leads 57.7 to 40.6.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp was released in August 2026 and Inkling Small in July 2026.

Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp if you need lower cost, long documents, structured output, benchmark performance 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.