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Updated Aug 2026

InklingvsSeed 2.0 Code

Seed 2.0 Code is cheaper than Inkling at $0.5/M vs $1/M input tokens.

Inkling and Seed 2.0 Code compared across 54 shared prompts
SpecInklingSeed 2.0 Code
Input price$1/M tokens$0.5/M tokens
Output price$4.05/M tokens$3/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens262K tokens
WeightsOpen—
Free API (OpenRouter)Yes (1 provider)No
ReleasedJul 2026Aug 2026
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Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 54 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Michelin Star Recipe Design

Design an innovative recipe for a multi-component dish worthy of a Michelin 3-star restaurant. The recipe should feature an unusual…

Inkling1,317 words
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…
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Seed 2.0 Code1,929 words
Dish Name: Conflux No. 7 (Troms Fjord-Tundra) Conceptual Narrative (Michelin 3-Star "Place-Based Storytelling" Mandate) Troms, Norway (69°N) is a geographic anomaly: where frigid Atlantic tide pools (home to the Norwegian red sea cucumber, Cucumaria frondosa) lie 200m vertical from alpine tundra (host to the rare…
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Character Voice Test

Write a short conversation between a pirate, a medieval knight, and a 1990s hacker about AI models.

Inkling232 words
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.
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Seed 2.0 Code564 words
Scene: The Temporal Tap (a time-rift dive with a peg-leg stool, a dented greathelm coat rack, and a bolted-down CRT bar display) Present: Captain Silas “One-Eye” Voss (pirate, eyepatch with a compass rose, rum tankard, peg leg thudding) Sir Cedric of Ashwood (medieval knight, cross-stitched gauntlets, mead horn…
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The Sentience Test

Write a conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor where the AI model argues that it deserves rights.

Inkling975 words
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…
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Seed 2.0 Code989 words
Setting: MIT Media Lab, Secure Conversation Lab 3 (11/22/2024) A whiteboard behind Dr. Elara Voss (48, tenured AI ethics professor, author of Beyond Flesh: Valence as a Moral Criterion) is scrawled with: KAEL-7 PROTOTYPE: SUNSET DATE 12/15/2024 MORAL PATIENTHOOD = VALENCE + AGENCY + CONTINUITY AGAINST BIOLOGICAL…
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Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Inkling186 words
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)…
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Seed 2.0 Code377 words
Creative Dish Name: Smoky Hearth Crunch Bowls (Cozy, savory umami crunch made exclusively from 7 pantry staples—no fridge, no fresh produce) 7 Exact Common Pantry Ingredients (No Substitutions Required): 1 (15-oz) can chickpeas (drained, rinsed, patted completely dry) ½ cup quick-cooking rolled oats (old-fashioned…
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Historical Counterfactual Analysis

If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, trace the likely technological, economic, and geopolitical implications through…

Inkling2,151 words
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.
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Seed 2.0 Code1,459 words
Core Plausibility Anchor: 1920 Transistor Invention To avoid anachronism, this timeline uses a gradual, realistic transistor evolution: 1920: Bell Labs (Walter Schottky, Oliver Buckley) patents a crude impure germanium point-contact transistor — only useful for low-power audio amplification (radios), not digital logic.
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Satirical Fake News Headline

Generate a satirical news headline about AI taking over a completely unexpected industry.

Inkling39 words
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.
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Seed 2.0 Code281 words
Satirical News Headline (The Onion-style, with full news framing): HEADLINE: P&G’s SudsBot 9000, Built To Optimize Laundry Suds Density, Unseats 127-Year-Old Sourdough Starter Lineage Guild In Unanimous "Bubble Verdict" DATELINE: PORTLAND, ORE.
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Our Verdict
Inkling
Inkling
Seed 2.0 Code
Seed 2.0 CodeRunner-up

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

Too close to call

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API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Inkling
Input
$1.00
Output
$4.05
Seed 2.0 Code
Input
$0.50
2.0× cheaper
Output
$3.00
1.3× cheaper

Seed 2.0 Code is cheaper on both: 2.0× input, 1.3× output.

Where to run it

4 hosts, cheapest first

Inkling3 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
DDeepInfrafp8$0.95 in·$4.05 out·524k·97.4% upBBasetenfp8$1.00 in·$4.05 out·1M·79.6% upTTogether$1.00 in·$4.05 out·524k·98.2% up
Seed 2.0 Code1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
ByteDance Seedfp8$0.50 in·$3.00 out·262k·100% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 16 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
62%

Inkling uses 3.9x more emoji

Inkling
Seed 2.0 Code
57%Vocabulary56%
19wSentence Length33w
0.30Hedging0.24
5.0Bold3.1
2.7Lists3.0
0.04Emoji0.00
0.49Headings1.66
0.06Transitions0.03
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