one chat reply3,000 tokens in, 500 outDeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs 1.1× as much as Inkling 2 Small
$0.0014
$0.0015
summarise a 100-page report50,000 tokens in, 1,500 out, one requestwithin 5%
$0.02
$0.02
1,000 classification calls500 tokens in, 20 out, per call
$0.17
$0.17
coding-agent session2M tokens in across ~60 turns, 60,000 out, no cache
$0.66
$0.67
at listed rates. token counts are typical sizes, not measurements.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash pricing notes
the listed price is DeepSeek's peak rate. DeepSeek's own api charges half outside 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00 UTC on weekdays; other serving providers bill the peak rate.
cache hits bill $0.006 per 1M on some serving providers and $0.03 per 1M on others.
Inkling 2 Small is Thinking Machines' second-generation 594B-total, 17B-active mixture-of-experts model with image input. its weights are closed for now; the lab plans an Apache 2.0 release. on octomind it is served only through Tinker.
pick it if
want the lowest-priced Inkling on octomind, below Inkling Small on both input and output
need adjustable reasoning effort, with chain-of-thought you can switch off
work on long agent runs: the lab trained it with a 256K window plus compaction
skip it if
you need open weights today; the lab has not released them yet
you need audio input; Inkling 2 Small takes text and images only
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is DeepSeek's open-weight mixture-of-experts model that reads text and images with a 1M-token context. it replaced V4 Flash behind DeepSeek's own deepseek-flash route and costs less than V4 Flash here.
pick it if
you want the cheapest DeepSeek model here, and the only one with image input
you need long replies: DeepSeek's api allows up to 384K output tokens
you want MIT-licensed weights you can self-host
skip it if
you need video or audio input; it takes text and images only
faq
which is better, Inkling 2 Small or DeepSeek V4.1 Flash?
on DeepSWE v1.1, as each maker reports it, Inkling 2 Small scores 72.1% and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 74.2. these are each maker's own numbers, not a controlled head-to-head; the spec table lists every benchmark both publish.
which is cheaper, Inkling 2 Small or DeepSeek V4.1 Flash?
Inkling 2 Small lists the lower output price; input prices match. on a coding-agent session (2M tokens in, 60,000 out) Inkling 2 Small costs $0.66 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash $0.67.
can i switch between Inkling 2 Small and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash mid-task?
yes. in an octomind session, /model octohub:inkling-2-small and /model octohub:deepseek-v4.1-flash switch models without losing the conversation, so you can draft on one and review on the other.
try either model
switch between models inside the same octomind session.