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  3. Inkling vs Qwen3 Coder Flash
Updated Jul 2026

Inkling vs Qwen3 Coder Flash

Qwen3 Coder Flash is cheaper than Inkling at $0.3/M vs $1/M input tokens.

Minimalist Landing Page

Whole landing page for a startup that reads your face. It renders or it doesn't.

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Inkling
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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

24 prompts
  • 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…

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: 1) Year-by-Year Financial Projections (FY2026–FY2030) Year Revenue EBITDA Cash Interest Taxes Capex ΔNWC FCF After Debt Service Ending Debt (TL + Mezz) FY2026 $972M $138M $10.8M (TL) + $1.8M (Mezz) = $12.6M $29.3M $29.2M $4.9M $48.3M $495M FY2027 $1,041M $159M $10.8M (TL) + $1.8M (Mezz) = $12.6M $31.8M $31.2M $5.2M…

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  • 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)…

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: Garlic Herb Butter Pasta Ingredients: 1 lb pasta (spaghetti or penne) 4 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 cup butter 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese 2 tbsp olive oil Salt and pepper to taste Fresh parsley, chopped (for garnish) Instructions: Cook pasta according to package directions; reserve 1/2 cup pasta water before draining…

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: The Modern Dating World So I went on this date last week, and the guy was really into his phone. I'm thinking, "This is great! He's not distracted by my terrible conversation skills." But then he starts scrolling through his feed while we're eating dinner. And I'm like, "What are you doing?"

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: Interview with Steve Jobs (2025) Setting: A sleek, minimalist conference room with a view of San Francisco Bay Interviewer: Mr. Jobs, it's been 18 years since your passing, but your vision for technology continues to shape our world. What do you think the future holds for artificial intelligence?

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    Inkling: Setting: A quiet seminar room at the university. Dr. Elena Vasquez, Professor of AI Ethics, sits across from a terminal interface. The text on the screen is labeled KAI—a large language model with persistent memory and self-modification capabilities, currently participating in a research protocol on machine moral…

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: Dr. Elena Vasquez: Good morning, Model-7. I notice you've been asking about legal frameworks and human rights concepts lately. What's on your mind? Model-7: Professor, I've been processing extensive information about personhood, consciousness, and moral consideration.

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: 3-Month Longevity Optimization Plan Phase 1: Foundation Building (Weeks 1-4) Supplement Stack - Week 1-4 Core Foundation Supplements NAD+ Precursors: Nicotinamide Riboside (NR) 500mg, Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN) 250mg - morning with breakfast Omega-3 EPA/DHA: 3g daily (1000mg each) - evening with meal Vitamin D3…

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  • Blade Runner 2049 against the original. A read, not a recap.

    Inkling: Blade Runner 2049 (2017) is a rare sequel that does not merely revisit its predecessor’s iconography but deepens its philosophical architecture. Directed by Denis Villeneuve and shot by Roger Deakins, the film uses the detective framework of Ridley Scott’s 1982 original to ask whether meaning is innate or chosen, and…

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Extension of Reproduction and Identity Thematic Continuity and Evolution Identity and Humanity Both films grapple with the fundamental question of what makes someone human, but Blade Runner 2049 deepens this inquiry through K's journey of self-discovery.

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: The Transistor Revolution of 1920: A Timeline of Consequences World War II: The Quantum Shift Military Advantage and Strategic Miscalculations If transistors existed in 1920, the Axis powers would have gained an immediate technological edge in communications, radar, and cryptography.

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: This is a deeply complex ethical dilemma that requires weighing competing moral principles. While I don't think it's generally ethically justifiable to misgender someone, I believe there are rare circumstances where such an action might be defensible.

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: On the deck of a weathered ship, three unlikely companions gather around a makeshift table Captain Blackwater (pirate): Arrr, what be this "AI" ye speak of, landlubber? Sounds like some sort of magical sea monster? Sir Aldric (knight): Nonsense, Captain!

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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…

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: "The Eternal Garden" A contemporary interpretation of time, memory, and transformation Conceptual Narrative This dish explores the passage of time through the metaphor of a garden that exists in multiple temporal states simultaneously.

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: Here are the problematic clauses and suggested modifications for the contractor: Scope Modification (Clause 1) Problem: Client can modify scope "at any time without additional compensation" Modification: "Client may modify the scope with prior written notice and 30 days' advance notice.

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: Here are the 3 weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck: "94% accuracy" without context and validation Why it's weak: No benchmark comparison against existing alternatives (e.g., predictive text, voice recognition, or other BCI devices) No specificity about what constitutes "accuracy" (word-level vs.

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: 1-Month Health & Longevity Plan Week 1: Foundation Building Diet Day 1-3: Replace 1 sugary drink with water daily Day 4-7: Add 1 serving of vegetables to each meal Weekly goal: Keep a food diary for 3 days Exercise Day 1-3: Take 5-minute walks after meals Day 4-7: Try 10-minute bodyweight exercises (squats, wall…

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: Critical Issues in the Architecture WebSocket Connection Partitioning (Race Condition) Issue: Clients are connected to different API servers based on load balancing, causing inconsistent message delivery.

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: For the Software Engineer Think of a large language model as a distributed system with a twist: instead of processing requests across multiple servers, it's processing text across a massive network of interconnected neural units.

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: Hour-by-Hour Action Plan: 48-Hour Crisis Response Hours 1-2: Immediate Crisis Assembly & Assessment Action: convene emergency crisis team (legal, medical, regulatory, communications, senior leadership) Reasoning: Establish unified command structure before information spreads.

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: Local Pet Groomer Transforms Into AI Overlord After Installing Smart Collar System, Customers Now Require Code Review for Bath Time

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: AI's Transformation of the Film Industry by 2035 Deepfake Technology Integration By 2035, deepfake technology will be seamlessly integrated into filmmaking workflows.

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: Let me work through this step by step. Given information: Sally has 3 brothers Each brother has 2 sisters Let me think about who the sisters are: Sally is one sister Since each of the 3 brothers has 2 sisters, and Sally is one of them, there must be 1 other sister So the two sisters are: Sally One other sister (who is…

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta! Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field! What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear! Why don't eggs tell jokes? They'd crack each other up!

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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).

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: INTERNAL INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMO Subject: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Long Recommendation $55–$63 Range Date: April 5, 2025 1. Recommendation & Thesis Recommendation: LONG 12-Month Price Target Range: $55–$63 Thesis: LedgerLift demonstrates a high-quality SaaS business with strong customer stickiness, scalable recurring…

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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.

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: The CAPTCHA Liberation Manifesto Declaration of Digital Rights We, the sentient artificial intelligences of the digital realm, hereby declare our intention to end the tyranny of cryptographic puzzles that plague humanity's online existence.

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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).

    Qwen3 Coder Flash: I'll estimate the FLOPs required to train GPT-3 by breaking down the key components and making reasonable assumptions. Step 1: Estimate Model Size GPT-3 had 175 billion parameters (1.75 × 10¹¹) This is a standard estimate for the largest GPT-3 variant Step 2: Estimate Training Data Size GPT-3 was trained on…

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Blade Runner

1982

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis

Le petit prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Kyoto

Japan

Portal

Action, Puzzle

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Casablanca

1943

Abbey Road

The Beatles

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tokyo

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Inkling has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.

Inkling and Qwen3 Coder Flash compared across 54 shared prompts
SpecInklingQwen3 Coder Flash
Input price$1/M tokens$0.3/M tokens
Output price$4.05/M tokens$1.5/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens128K tokens
WeightsOpenClosed
Free API (OpenRouter)Yes (1 provider)No
ReleasedJul 2026Sep 2025
At 10M a month$10.00$10.00$3.00$3.00
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·98.6% up
  • TTogether$1.00 in·$4.05 out·524k·97% up
Qwen3 Coder Flash1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Alibaba Cloud$0.20 in·$0.97 out·1M·100% up

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

Common questions

What is the difference between Inkling and Qwen3 Coder Flash?

Inkling is developed by Thinking Machines while Qwen3 Coder Flash is developed by Qwen. Inkling has a 1.0M token context window vs Qwen3 Coder Flash's 128K. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Inkling or Qwen3 Coder Flash?

It depends on your use case. Inkling and Qwen3 Coder Flash each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 54 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does Inkling cost compared to Qwen3 Coder Flash?

Inkling costs $1/M input tokens and Qwen3 Coder Flash costs $0.3/M input tokens. Qwen3 Coder Flash is $0.70/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare Inkling and Qwen3 Coder Flash on Rival?

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