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Inkling Small vs MiMo V2.6 Pro

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

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Inkling SmallThinking Machinesthinkingmachines/inkling-small
MiMo V2.6 ProXiaomixiaomi/mimo-v2.6-pro
Creator
Thinking Machines
Xiaomi
Released
Jul 30, 2026
Sep 21, 2026
Context window
524K
1.05M (best)
Max output
262K (best)
131K
Input / 1MLowest provider price
$0.45
$0.39 (best)
Output / 1MLowest provider price
$1.20
$0.78 (best)
Providers
1
1
IntelligenceArtificial Analysis index
12.9
29.9 (best)
Accepts
Text, Image, Audio
Text, Image, Video, Audio
Produces
Text
Text
Tool calling
Yes
Yes
Structured output
Yes
Yes
Reasoning
Yes
Yes

Inkling Small vs MiMo V2.6 Pro: summary

Inkling Small and MiMo V2.6 Pro are both available through FastRouter's OpenAI-compatible API, so switching between them is a change of model id, not a new integration.

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.

MiMo V2.6 Pro, from Xiaomi, has a 1,048,576-token context window, costs $0.39/1M input and $0.78/1M output tokens and scores 29.9 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.

MiMo V2.6 Pro is the cheapest on input, 1.2× cheaper than the next model, MiMo V2.6 Pro has the largest context window and MiMo V2.6 Pro scores highest for intelligence.

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client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.fastrouter.ai/api/v1", api_key="<FASTROUTER_API_KEY>") client.chat.completions.create(model="thinkingmachines/inkling-small", messages=[...]) # or client.chat.completions.create(model="xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-pro", messages=[...])
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Benchmark scores sourced from ArtificialAnalysis