Inkling Small API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis
This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of Inkling Small for your use-case.
Fastest
DeepInfra
Baseten
Thinking MachinesOutput speed
Total 3 providers
Lowest Latency
DeepInfraBasetenThinking MachinesTime to first answer token
Total 3 providers
Lowest Price
Thinking MachinesDeepInfraBasetenBlended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 3 providers
Inkling Small is available through 3 API providers, each offering different performance characteristics and pricing. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across providers.
- For output speed, the top providers are DeepInfra (248.3 t/s), Baseten (243.6 t/s), and Thinking Machines (208.5 t/s).
- For latency, DeepInfra (8.63s), Baseten (8.86s), and Thinking Machines (11.60s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, Thinking Machines (0.22), DeepInfra (0.28), and Baseten (0.29) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens.
- DeepInfra offers the best performance with both the highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, Thinking Machines provides the most competitive pricing.
Highlights
Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.
Pricing
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Pricing: Blended Price
Pricing: Cache Discount
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed: Inkling Small
Latency vs. Output Speed
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Time to First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Key Comparison Metrics & API Features
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Inkling Small providers
Inkling Small is available through 3 API providers: DeepInfra, Baseten, and Thinking Machines. Each provider offers different performance characteristics and pricing.
Inkling Small is currently available through 3 API providers that we benchmark and track.
The fastest providers for Inkling Small by output speed are DeepInfra (248.3 t/s), Baseten (243.6 t/s), and Thinking Machines (208.5 t/s). Output speed measures how quickly tokens are generated after the model starts responding.
The providers with the lowest time to first answer token for Inkling Small are DeepInfra (8.63s), Baseten (8.86s), and Thinking Machines (11.60s). Lower latency means faster initial response time.
The most affordable providers for Inkling Small by blended price are Thinking Machines ($0.22 per 1M tokens), DeepInfra ($0.28 per 1M tokens), and Baseten ($0.29 per 1M tokens). Blended price uses a 7:2:1 cache hit/input/output token ratio.
The providers with the lowest input token pricing for Inkling Small are Thinking Machines ($0.30 per 1M input tokens), DeepInfra ($0.45 per 1M input tokens), and Baseten ($0.50 per 1M input tokens).
The providers with the lowest output token pricing for Inkling Small are DeepInfra ($1.20 per 1M output tokens), Baseten ($1.20 per 1M output tokens), and Thinking Machines ($1.20 per 1M output tokens).
Prices for Inkling Small vary up to 1.3x across providers. The most affordable is Thinking Machines at $0.22 per 1M tokens, while Baseten charges $0.29 per 1M tokens.
All 3 providers of Inkling Small support JSON mode for structured output.
All 3 providers of Inkling Small support function calling (tool use).
For Inkling Small, DeepInfra offers the best performance with highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, Thinking Machines provides the most competitive pricing.
When choosing a provider for Inkling Small, consider: output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and API features like JSON mode or function calling.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
For information about Inkling Small's intelligence, capabilities, modalities, and how it compares to other models, see the model overview page. View model overview