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Updated Jul 2026

Claude Opus 4.1vsInkling

Inkling is cheaper than Claude Opus 4.1 at $1/M vs $15/M input tokens.

Claude Opus 4.1 and Inkling compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecClaude Opus 4.1Inkling
Input price$15/M tokens$1/M tokens
Output price$75/M tokens$4.05/M tokens
Context window200K tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoYes (1 provider)
ReleasedAug 2025Jul 2026
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Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 53 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Claude Opus 4.1200 words
Midnight Velvet Pasta A silky, umami-rich pasta that comes together like magic Ingredients (serves 4): Spaghetti or linguine - 1 pound Soy sauce - 3 tablespoons Butter - 4 tablespoons Garlic - 4 cloves Black pepper - 1 teaspoon (freshly cracked) Honey - 1 tablespoon Dried red pepper flakes - ½ teaspoon Instructions…
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Inkling186 words
Golden Jam Crumble Clouds A buttery, cinnamon-kissed oat crumble layered with sweet jam—like a hug from your pantry. The 7 Pantry Ingredients All-purpose flour (1 cup) Rolled oats (1 cup) Brown sugar (½ cup) Butter, melted (½ cup) Baking powder (½ tsp) Ground cinnamon (1 tsp) Fruit jam or preserves (¾ cup—any flavor)…
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Character Voice Test

Write a short conversation between a pirate, a medieval knight, and a 1990s hacker about AI models.

Claude Opus 4.1268 words
Pirate: Arrr, what be this sorcery ye speak of? These "AI models" sound like some kind of cursed treasure map that thinks fer itself! Knight: Hold thy tongue, sea dog! 'Tis clearly dark magic most foul. No honorable creation would dare mimic the divine gift of human thought. I should smite it with my blade!
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Inkling232 words
Pirate: Arr, listen here—this “Large Language Model” be like a ghost ship crewed by every sailor who ever wrote a log! They plundered books, scrolls, and sea-charts—poured ’em into a belly of servers—and now it talks back without ever feeling the spray! Knight: Forsooth, it is a golem clad in chainmail of numbers.
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Satirical Fake News Headline

Generate a satirical news headline about AI taking over a completely unexpected industry.

Claude Opus 4.141 words
"OpenAI's ChatGPT Becomes World's First AI Fortune Cookie Writer; Confucius Reportedly 'Rolling in Grave at 10,000 RPM'" Tech giant promises fortunes will now be "25% more profound and 400% more grammatically correct," while accidentally predicting everyone's lucky numbers as binary code
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Inkling39 words
AI Disrupts Global “You Too” Industry, Leaving Millions of Servers With No One to Echo Back At Silicon Valley startup unveils neural network trained exclusively on reflexive politeness; economists baffled to learn the sector employed 40 million people worldwide.
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Generate a Stand-Up Routine

Write a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns.

Claude Opus 4.1576 words
"MODERN LIFE SURVIVAL GUIDE" You know what nobody tells you about being an adult? The sheer amount of lying involved. Not big lies – tiny, constant lies just to function in society. Someone shows you a photo of their baby: "Oh wow, beautiful!" That baby looks like a worried potato. But you can't SAY that.
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Inkling675 words
[Walk up, adjust mic, look tired but friendly] You ever realize adulthood is just you apologizing to things that can’t hear you? I bumped into my coffee table yesterday. Full apology. “Oh, I’m so sorry, table. You okay? I’ll rub it out.” The table didn’t care. The table is wood.
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Futuristic Prediction

Predict how AI will change the film industry by 2035, considering deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation.

Claude Opus 4.1250 words
AI's Transformation of Film by 2035 Production Revolution By 2035, AI will fundamentally alter how films are made. Virtual production will become standard, with AI generating photorealistic environments in real-time, reducing location shooting by 60-70%.
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Inkling1,119 words
By 2035, AI will not have “replaced” Hollywood in the way science fiction often imagines, but it will have split the industry into distinct layers: hyper-efficient synthetic production for streaming and advertising, and premium “human-authenticated” cinema for theatrical events.
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Historical Counterfactual Analysis

If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, trace the likely technological, economic, and geopolitical implications through…

Claude Opus 4.11,201 words
The Transistor Timeline Shift: A Cascade of Consequences The 1920s-1930s: The Foundation Disruption Immediate Technical Revolution With the transistor arriving in 1920, likely from Bell Labs or a European research institution, the first decade would see rapid miniaturization of radio equipment.
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Inkling2,151 words
If a working point-contact transistor—small, cool, and solid-state—had emerged in 1920, the cascade would not merely “speed up” our timeline. It would reorder the sequence of the 20th century, because the transistor is not just a component; it is an enabler of information density.
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Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.1
Inkling
Inkling

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Inkling costs 19x less per token.

Too close to call

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API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Claude Opus 4.1
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
Inkling
Input
$1.00
15× cheaper
Output
$4.05
19× cheaper

Inkling is cheaper on both: 15× input, 19× output.

Where to run it

5 hosts, cheapest first

Claude Opus 4.12 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
Amazon Bedrock$15.00 in·$75.00 out·200k·100% upGoogle Vertex AI$15.00 in·$75.00 out·200k·99.7% up
Inkling3 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
DDeepInfrafp8$0.95 in·$4.05 out·524k·98% upBBasetenfp8$1.00 in·$4.05 out·1M·82.4% upTTogether$1.00 in·$4.05 out·524k·98.6% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 16 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
22%

Claude Opus 4.1 uses 20.9x more emoji

Claude Opus 4.1
Inkling
63%Vocabulary57%
64wSentence Length19w
0.72Hedging0.30
4.5Bold5.0
5.3Lists2.7
0.81Emoji0.04
1.42Headings0.49
0.16Transitions0.06
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