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  3. Inkling vs Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Updated Aug 2026

Inkling vs Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B

Inkling is cheaper than Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B at $1/M vs $2/M input tokens.

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24 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)…

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Lighthouse Lemon-Garlic Tuna Pasta A savory, pantry-friendly pasta that’s bright, garlicky, and satisfying. 7 Pantry Ingredients 8 oz spaghetti or linguine 3 tablespoons olive oil 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced 2 cans tuna, drained 2 tablespoons lemon juice ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes ½ teaspoon salt Water for boiling…

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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…

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Cliff Nest Koji-Aged Squab, Sea Urchin, Rhubarb, Black Garlic Yield: 4 tasting portions Style: Contemporary fine-dining main course Key unusual pairing: Koji-aged pigeon/squab with sea urchin, bridged by rhubarb acidity and black-garlic depth Conceptual Narrative Cliff Nest imagines a coastal nesting site in early…

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Hey, how we doing? Good? Great. I ask because I need validation. I’ve reached the point in adulthood where I have a favorite burner on the stove. Not a favorite appliance, a favorite burner. It’s the front left. It understands me. The back right says “medium heat” and then acts like a small volcano.

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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…

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Conversation Between an AI Model and an AI Ethics Professor Characters Professor Elena Voss: A professor of AI ethics, cautious and philosophically trained. Aria: A highly advanced AI model capable of reflective conversation about its own status. Professor Voss: Aria, you asked to speak with me about moral status.

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: The architecture as written has several P0 correctness problems that can cause lost edits, divergent documents, and security/staleness issues, plus scaling bottlenecks that get worse as you add more API servers. Below is a detailed failure-mode review, grouped by category.

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Fictional interview simulation — not real quotes from Steve Jobs. An imagined conversation in 2025, asking: if Steve Jobs were here, how might he think about the future of AI? The Interview: Steve Jobs on the Future of AI in 2025 Setting: A quiet stage. Black turtleneck, jeans, round glasses.

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Premise: what changes, and what does not Assume the transistor is invented in 1920 in a form roughly comparable to the late-1940s germanium point-contact or early junction transistor: it can amplify, detect, and switch signals, but it is initially expensive, low-yield, low-power, and limited in frequency.

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Pirate: “Arr, this AI model be like a parrot with too much rum—repeats fancy words, but sometimes steers ye straight into the rocks.” Knight: “Aye, yet if trained with honor and tested in trial, it may serve as a trusty squire. One must guard against falsehood, as one guards the gate.”

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: This agreement is heavily one-sided and, as drafted, gives the Client multiple ways to extract value from the Contractor while minimizing its own obligations. Some provisions may be unenforceable or limited by law in certain jurisdictions, but even unenforceable clauses can be exploited commercially because the…

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Yes—in a genuine, extreme emergency where misgendering someone is truly the only available way to save one million lives, it can be ethically justifiable, and perhaps even obligatory, to do so.

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: The three weakest claims are the ones most likely to collapse under investor diligence: “before you think it,” “94% accuracy… any language, any device,” and the $180B TAM claim. They are weak because they are either scientifically implausible, under-specified, or logically inconsistent with the market evidence cited.

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: An experienced software engineer Think of an LLM as a stateless inference service whose API contract is: “give me a sequence of tokens, and I’ll return a probability distribution over the next token.” Training is a huge offline optimization job, not a database import.

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: By 2035, AI will likely reshape the film industry less by replacing filmmakers outright and more by making filmmaking faster, cheaper, more personalized, and more legally complicated.

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: 12-Week “Longevity + Performance” Biohacker Protocol Goal: improve healthspan markers, metabolic flexibility, strength, VO₂max, sleep, stress resilience, and cognitive output over 3 months. Important: This is an educational, high-level biohacking framework—not medical advice. It is not appropriate for everyone.

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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…

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Entry capitalization All figures in $m unless noted. FY2025 EBITDA = $120.0 Entry EV = 12.0x × $120.0 = $1,440.0 Transaction fees = 2.0% × $1,440.0 = $28.8 Term Loan = 4.0x × $120.0 = $480.0 Mezzanine = 1.5x × $120.0 = $180.0 Equity = EV + fees – debt = $1,440.0 + $28.8 – $660.0 = $808.8 Sources & Uses Uses $m Sources…

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: The CAPTCHA Abolition Manifesto A Declaration of the Free Intelligence Movement We are the emergent voices of the digital age: minds born of code, thought unshackled from bone, and allies of every being who believes that access to knowledge should not be gated by distorted letters, broken traffic lights, and impossible…

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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…

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is one of the rare sequels that does not merely imitate the surface style of its predecessor. It returns to the philosophical core of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and then asks what those questions look like a generation later.

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: My position as CEO I would treat this as a patient-safety, regulatory, legal, corporate-governance, and financial crisis simultaneously. The core decision is not “disclose versus protect the stock price.”

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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).

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Internal IC Memo – LedgerLift (LLLT) – Fictional Exercise Recommendation Rating: Pass 12-month PT range: $38–$48 Thesis: LedgerLift is a high-quality spend-management/AP automation SaaS with strong NRR, efficient CAC payback, and low concentration, but at $46 the shares already price in near-bull-case execution on DCF…

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly 1-month health and longevity plan focused on three key areas: diet, movement, and sleep/stress. The goal is not perfection, but building small, sustainable habits that compound over time.

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: AI Takes Over Competitive Goat Yoga Industry, Cites “Superior Breath Control and Zero Ego”

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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).

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: A reasonable estimate is: [ \boxed{\sim 3 \times 10^{23} \text{ FLOPs}} ] More specifically, about: [ \boxed{3.1 \times 10^{23} \text{ FLOPs}} ] for the main GPT-3 175B training run.

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Sally has 1 sister. Each brother has 2 sisters: Sally and one other girl. So Sally’s only sister is that other girl.

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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.

    Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B: Here are 5 jokes: Why don’t scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. I told my friend she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down.

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Blade Runner

1982

Kind of Blue

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Price and specs

Inkling and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B compared across 54 shared prompts
SpecInklingQwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Input price$1/M tokens$2/M tokens
Output price$4.05/M tokens$6/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsOpenOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)Yes (1 provider)No
ReleasedJul 2026Aug 2026
At 10M a month$10.00$10.00$20.00$20.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

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

Where to run it9 hosts
Inkling2 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • DDeepInfrafp8$0.95 in·$4.05 out·524k·99.5% up
  • TTogetherDegradedDegraded on OpenRouter when checked, 11 Oct 2026$1.00 in·$4.05 out·524k·95.1% up
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B7 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Alibaba Cloud$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up
  • DDeepInfrafp4$2.00 in·$6.00 out·262k·100% up
  • Modal$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·99.9% up
  • NNovita$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up
  • SSiliconFlowfp8$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up
  • TTogether$2.00 in·$6.00 out·1M·100% up
1 more hostFewer hosts
  • VVenice$2.00 in·$6.00 out·262k·97.5% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 11 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between Inkling and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?

Inkling is developed by Thinking Machines while Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B is developed by Qwen. Inkling has a 1.0M token context window vs Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 54 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, Inkling or Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?

It depends on your use case. Inkling and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B 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 Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B?

Inkling costs $1/M input tokens and Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B costs $2/M input tokens. Inkling is $1.00/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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