DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Inkling Small: API price and specs

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is 86% cheaper than Inkling Small on input price.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is 88% cheaper than Inkling Small on output price.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is 87% cheaper than Inkling Small on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Field	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	Inkling Small
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.045	$0.32 +603.3%
Median input, per 1M	$0.30	$0.45 +50%
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.15	$1.20 +700%
Median output, per 1M	$1.20	$1.20
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.075	$0.56 +642%
Context	1M	1M
Max output	1M	1M +4.6%
Providers	60	11 +81.7%
Regions	APAC, EU, GLOBAL, US	US
Accepts	application/pdf, file, image, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, pdf, text	audio, image, pdf, text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	yes	yes
Cheapest provider	openrouter	trustedrouter

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

aiml, baseten, deepinfra, edenai, fastrouter, huggingface, impossibl, kilo, openrouter, trustedrouter, vercel

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or Inkling Small?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is 86% cheaper than Inkling Small on input price. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is 88% cheaper than Inkling Small on output price. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is 87% cheaper than Inkling Small on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash or Inkling Small?

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 1M tokens; Inkling Small: 1M tokens.

Where can I use both DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Inkling Small?

aiml, baseten, deepinfra, edenai, fastrouter, huggingface, impossibl, kilo, openrouter, trustedrouter, vercel