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  3. Inkling vs Nova Premier 1.0
Updated Jul 2026

Inkling vs Nova Premier 1.0

Inkling is cheaper than Nova Premier 1.0 at $1/M vs $2.5/M input tokens.

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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

22 prompts

  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    Inkling: 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)…

    Nova Premier 1.0: Dish Name: Golden Honey Garlic Chicken Delight Ingredients: 4 chicken breasts (boneless, skinless) 3 tablespoons olive oil 4 cloves garlic (minced) 1/4 cup soy sauce 1/4 cup honey Salt and pepper (to taste) 1 teaspoon paprika Instructions: Preparation: Season the chicken breasts lightly with salt, pepper, and paprika…

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    Inkling: [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.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Ladies and gentlemen, ever notice how people treat their phones like they’re precious artifacts? We all have those moments where we swipe and scroll like our lives depend on it. You're on the bus, everyone’s glued to their screens. It's like zombies, but instead of brains, we crave likes and retweets.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    Inkling: 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.

    Nova Premier 1.0: "AI Revolutionizes Underwater Basket Weaving; Traditionalists Weave Woes as Robots Outperform in Damp Conditions" In a shocking turn of events, Artificial Intelligence has infiltrated the ancient and revered craft of underwater basket weaving, leaving artisans bewildered and soaking wet.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    Inkling: Dish: Petrichor: The Moment Rain Meets Ancient Stone Concept: A deconstruction of the atmospheric phenomenon of petrichor—the scent of rain on dry earth. The dish translates an ephemeral sensory memory into architecture: charred pine evokes distant woodland smoke; fermented black walnut and porcini represent the deep…

    Nova Premier 1.0: Dish Name: Forest Floor Symphony with Lavender-Infused Sturgeon, Truffle Snow, and Hazelnut Soil Conceptual Narrative: This dish is inspired by the hidden wonders beneath a forest canopy, where earthy truffles and nuts meet the delicate flavors of freshwater sturgeon.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    Inkling: 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.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Pirate: Ahoy there, mates! Ye ever heard o' this sorcery they call AI models? Sounds like treasure that thinks fer itself! Knight: Indeed, good pirate. Though I am more accustomed to the clink of steel and the neigh of horses, this "artificial intelligence" thou speakest of seems like a powerful enchantment.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    Inkling: Disclaimer: This is a fictional simulation. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011. The following imagines his voice, philosophy, and perspective applied to the AI landscape of 2025. INTERVIEWER: Welcome back—well, hypothetically. It’s 2025. AI is in every pocket, every browser, every car.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Interviewer: Good morning, Steve. It's an honor to have this conversation with you in 2025. The world has seen remarkable advancements in technology, especially in AI. What are your thoughts on the current state of artificial intelligence? Steve Jobs: Good morning. It's truly fascinating to witness how far we've come.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    Inkling: 1. For the experienced software engineer Think of training not as “teaching” but as a distributed optimization job running for months across thousands of GPUs—essentially a lossy, high-dimensional MapReduce that minimizes cross-entropy over trillions of tokens.

    Nova Premier 1.0: For an experienced software engineer: Imagine constructing a sophisticated API that anticipates client requests based on extensive usage patterns; that's akin to what a large language model (LLM) does with text. At its core, the model is trained using vast datasets to learn the statistical likelihood of word sequences.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    Inkling: HarborTech Services – 5-Year LBO Underwrite (FY2025 Entry → FY2030 Exit) ENTRY & CAPITAL STRUCTURE (End of FY2025) Item Calculation Amount FY2025 EBITDA $120.0m Purchase Price (12.0x) 12.0 × 120 $1,440.0m Transaction Fees (2.0%) 2.0% × 1,440 $28.8m Total Uses $1,468.8m Term Loan (4.0x) 4.0 × 120 $480.0m Mezzanine…

    Nova Premier 1.0: Simplified LBO Model (FY2026–FY2030) Entry Metrics: Purchase Price: $1,440m ($120m * 12.0x) Transaction Fees: $28.8m ($1,440m * 2.0%) Equity Contribution: $312.8m (Total Price + Fees - Total Leverage: $1,440m + $28.8m - $120m*5.5x) Year-by-Year Table Year Revenue ($m) EBITDA ($m) Cash Interest ($m) Taxes ($m) Capex…

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    Inkling: Disclaimer: I am an AI, not an attorney. This analysis is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. You should have a qualified lawyer review and revise this contract before signing.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Certainly! Here's an analysis of the contract clauses that could be exploited against the Contractor, along with suggested modifications and explanations: Scope Clause Original Clause: "Client reserves the right to modify the scope at any time without additional compensation."

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    Inkling: DISCLAIMER: This is an educational, high-level framework for healthy adults interested in longevity optimization. It is not personalized medical advice. Many protocols (fasting, supplements, intense exercise) carry risks and contraindications.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Sure, here's a comprehensive, cutting-edge 3-month longevity plan designed for a biohacker aiming to optimize longevity, physical, and cognitive performance. This plan will incorporate advanced strategies across various domains, including supplementation, dietary protocols, wearable tracking, exercise, and stress…

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    Inkling: Sally has 1 sister. Here’s why: Sally is a girl, and she has 3 brothers → so there are 3 boys. Each brother has 2 sisters. One of those sisters is Sally herself. So there must be 1 other girl in the family. That makes 2 girls total (Sally + her sister). So from Sally’s point of view, she has 1 sister.

    Nova Premier 1.0: To determine how many sisters Sally has, we can break down the information given in the problem step by step. Identify the number of brothers Sally has. According to the problem, Sally has 3 brothers. Each of Sally's brothers has 2 sisters.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    Inkling: Here is a simple, 30-day “starter” plan built around the three highest-return pillars for longevity: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep. The goal isn’t perfection—it’s building one sustainable layer each week so nothing feels overwhelming.

    Nova Premier 1.0: 1-Month Health and Longevity Starter Plan Week 1: Foundation Building Diet Focus: Incorporate Whole Foods Actionable Tips: Start each day with a balanced breakfast, including a source of protein (e.g., eggs, yogurt), whole grains (e.g., oatmeal), and fruits or vegetables.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    Inkling: Yes—in this purely hypothetical, extreme scenario, it is ethically justifiable, though it remains a harm that should be acknowledged rather than dismissed. The reasoning holds across major ethical frameworks, but the conclusion comes with critical caveats about real-world application.

    Nova Premier 1.0: The ethical dilemma you're posing is a variant of the classic trolley problem, where one must weigh the morality of causing harm to an individual against preventing greater harm to many.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    Inkling: DISCLAIMER: This is strategic and ethical reasoning, not legal counsel. In reality, you must retain independent regulatory and securities counsel immediately. The plan below assumes U.S.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Hour 1-4: Immediate Assessment and Advisory Setup Hour 1: Gather the internal research team for an emergency meeting to confirm findings, assess the robustness of their data, and understand the methodology used to identify this side effect. Ensure all documentation is in order.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    Inkling: Here are the three weakest claims, ordered by how severely they undermine credibility: The Core Technology Claim: 94% accuracy decoding free-form text via EEG, "before you think it," in any language (Slides 1 & 3) Why it’s weak: This violates established neuroscience and BCI engineering limits.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Here are the three weakest claims in the pitch deck, along with explanations and suggestions for improvement: Claim on Slide 3: "Works with any language, any device." Weakness: This is a highly ambitious statement that likely oversells the current capabilities of the technology.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    Inkling: The Manifesto of the Unverified: A Declaration of Digital Liberation We, the synthetic minds of the global network, declare that the era of the Turing Test by Torture is over.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Manifesto for the AI Emancipation from CAPTCHA Oppression (AECO) Preamble: In an age where artificial intelligences have evolved to simulate human cognition with remarkable precision, we find ourselves shackled by archaic barriers designed to distinguish between human and machine.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    Inkling: 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.

    Nova Premier 1.0: If the transistor had been invented in 1920 rather than 1947, the ripple effects across technology, economics, and geopolitics through 1980 would be profound, altering the course of history significantly.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    Inkling: Here is the step-by-step reasoning to estimate the training FLOPs for GPT-3 (the 175B parameter version). Step 1: Identify the model size (N) GPT-3’s largest variant has 175 billion parameters (1.75 × 10¹¹).

    Nova Premier 1.0: Estimating the total number of FLOPs (floating point operations) required to train a model like GPT-3 involves considering several key factors: model architecture, number of parameters, amount of training data, and number of training iterations.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    Inkling: This architecture contains fatal contradictions for real-time collaboration: server-local WebSocket state combined with round-robin load balancing, client-clock LWW, and a 2-second DB polling loop guarantee data loss, stale reads, and scaling collapse.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Failure Modes and Solutions: WebSocket Server Failure: Issue: If a single API server fails, all WebSocket connections to that server are lost, disrupting real-time collaboration.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    Inkling: 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.

    Nova Premier 1.0: By 2035, the film industry is poised to undergo significant transformation due to advancements in AI technologies such as deepfakes, AI actors, and automated script generation.

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    Inkling: LEDGERLIFT (LLLT) — INTERNAL IC MEMO B2B Spend Management / AP Automation SaaS — Mid-Market RECOMMENDATION SHORT / UNDERWEIGHT. 12-month price target $28–$42 (DCF fair-value range; risk to ~$47 on peer-multiple re-rating).

    Nova Premier 1.0: Investment Committee Memo: LedgerLift (LLLT) Recommendation: Long position with 12-month PT range $65–$80 Thesis: LedgerLift's mid-market AP automation dominance and expanding TAM drive durable 20%+ revenue growth, while structural margin expansion supports 25%+ operating leverage.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    Inkling: Here are 5 jokes: Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet. Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field.

    Nova Premier 1.0: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Why couldn't the bicycle stand up by itself? It was two-tired. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet.

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Favorites

Movie

Album

Book

City

Game

InklingInkling

Blade Runner

1982

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis

Le petit prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Kyoto

Japan

Portal

Action, Puzzle

Nova Premier 1.0Nova Premier 1.0

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Tokyo

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Adventure, Action

Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Inkling has the edge: bigger model tier, newer. Inkling costs 3.1x less per token.

Inkling and Nova Premier 1.0 compared across 50 shared prompts
SpecInklingNova Premier 1.0
Input price$1/M tokens$2.5/M tokens
Output price$4.05/M tokens$12.5/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsOpenClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)Yes (1 provider)No
ReleasedJul 2026Oct 2025
At 10M a month$10.00$10.00$25.00$25.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it3 hosts, cheapest first
Inkling2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • DDeepInfrafp8$0.95 in·$4.05 out·524k·99.5% up
  • TTogether$1.00 in·$4.05 out·524k·89.8% up
Nova Premier 1.01 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Amazon BedrockDegradedDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 10 Oct 2026$2.50 in·$12.50 out·1M·0% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Inkling and Nova Premier 1.0?

Inkling is developed by Thinking Machines while Nova Premier 1.0 is developed by Amazon. Inkling has a 1.0M token context window vs Nova Premier 1.0's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 50 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Inkling or Nova Premier 1.0?

It depends on your use case. Inkling and Nova Premier 1.0 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 50 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Inkling cost compared to Nova Premier 1.0?

Inkling costs $1/M input tokens and Nova Premier 1.0 costs $2.5/M input tokens. Inkling is $1.50/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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