Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch)

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Inkling Small costs $0.75 and GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch) costs $2.50, so Inkling Small is about 3.3 times cheaper for the same work.

GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch) reads up to 1,050,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,575 pages of text, against about 786 pages for Inkling Small.

Only Inkling Small offers audio input; only GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch) offers structured output.

Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Inkling Small scores higher on 7 (Code Completion, Code Documentation, Regex Writing and others), GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch) on 12 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

Pick Inkling Small if you need lower cost or audio input; pick GPT-5.6 Terra Pro (batch) if you need long documents or structured output.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.