Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 vs Thinking Machines: Inkling
Compare Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 by Mistral AI against Thinking Machines: Inkling by Thinking Machines, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Thinking Machines: Inkling
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Thinking Machines: Inkling has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is 14x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Input
$0.10
10× cheaper
Output
$0.30
14× cheaper
Thinking Machines: Inkling
Input
$1.00
Output
$4.05
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1 is cheaper on both — 10× input, 14× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
32%
Thinking Machines: Inkling uses 3.9x more emoji
Mistral Devstral Small 1.1
Thinking Machines: Inkling
50%Vocabulary57%
17wSentence Length19w
0.56Hedging0.30
4.3Bold5.0
5.7Lists2.7
0.00Emoji0.04
0.05Headings0.49
0.34Transitions0.06
Based on 21 + 27 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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