Which is cheaper, Qwen3.8 27B and Inkling Small?

Qwen3.8 27B has the lowest input price. Per 1M input tokens: Qwen3.8 27B from $0.15 and Inkling Small from $0.45.

Which has the larger context window, Qwen3.8 27B and Inkling Small?

Inkling Small has the largest context window: Qwen3.8 27B 262,144 tokens and Inkling Small 524,288 tokens.

Can I switch between Qwen3.8 27B and Inkling Small without changing my code?

Yes. All of them are served through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching is a change of the model parameter (qwen/qwen3.8-27b, thinkingmachines/inkling-small).

Qwen3.8 27B vs Inkling Small

Side-by-side pricing per provider, context window, benchmark scores and speed, all on one OpenAI-compatible API.

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Qwen3.8 27B Alibabaqwen/qwen3.8-27b

Inkling Small Thinking Machinesthinkingmachines/inkling-small

Creator

Alibaba

Thinking Machines

Released

Aug 14, 2025

Jul 30, 2026

Context window

262K

524K

Max output

131K

262K

Input / 1MLowest provider price

$0.15$0.15–$0.40 across 2

$0.45

Output / 1MLowest provider price

$1.88$1.88–$3.00 across 2

$1.20

Providers

IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index

20.1

12.9

Accepts

Text, Image, Video

Text, Image, Audio

Produces

Text

Tool calling

Yes

Structured output

Yes

Reasoning

Yes

Qwen3.8 27B vs Inkling Small: summary

Qwen3.8 27B and Inkling Small are both available through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching between them is a change of model id, not a new integration.

Qwen3.8 27B, from Alibaba, has a 262,144-token context window, costs from $0.15/1M input and $1.88/1M output tokens across 2 providers and scores 20.1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Inkling Small, from Thinking Machines, has a 524,288-token context window, costs $0.45/1M input and $1.20/1M output tokens and scores 12.9 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

Qwen3.8 27B is the cheapest on input, 3× cheaper than the next model, Inkling Small has the largest context window and Qwen3.8 27B scores highest for intelligence.

Switch with one line

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>") client.chat.completions.create(model="qwen/qwen3.8-27b", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="thinkingmachines/inkling-small", messages=[...])

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