Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Compare Thinking Machines: Inkling by Thinking Machines against Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 by Qwen, context windows of 1.0M vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Thinking Machines: Inkling
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Thinking Machines: Inkling has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is 5.1x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Thinking Machines: Inkling
Input
$1.00
Output
$4.05
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Input
$0.20
5.0× cheaper
Output
$0.80
5.1× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 is cheaper on both — 5.0× input, 5.1× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
43%
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 uses 26.8x more emoji
Thinking Machines: Inkling
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
57%Vocabulary55%
19wSentence Length18w
0.30Hedging0.52
5.0Bold6.7
2.7Lists4.3
0.04Emoji1.04
0.49Headings0.92
0.06Transitions0.11
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Research
What we learned reading every model
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