Thinking Machines: Inkling vs OpenAI o3
Compare Thinking Machines: Inkling by Thinking Machines against OpenAI o3 by OpenAI, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Thinking Machines: Inkling
OpenAI o3
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Thinking Machines: Inkling is 9.9x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Thinking Machines: Inkling
Input
$1.00
10× cheaper
Output
$4.05
9.9× cheaper
OpenAI o3
Input
$10.00
Output
$40.00
Thinking Machines: Inkling is cheaper on both — 10× input, 9.9× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
71%
Thinking Machines: Inkling uses 3.9x more emoji
Thinking Machines: Inkling
OpenAI o3
57%Vocabulary68%
19wSentence Length14w
0.30Hedging0.26
5.0Bold0.7
2.7Lists3.0
0.04Emoji0.00
0.49Headings0.38
0.06Transitions0.12
Based on 27 + 16 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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