Mistral Large 4 vs Thinking Machines Inkling
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Inkling is 1.2× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Mistral Large 4 accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 524K tokens.
- Mistral Large 4's best provider was more reliable over 24 h: 100% vs 98.6%.
- Mistral Large 4 is the newer model (released 2026-10-06).
| Mistral Large 4 | Inkling | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Mistral | Thinking Machines |
| Released | 2026-10-06 | 2026-07-17 |
| Input / 1M | $1.36 | $1.00 |
| Output / 1M | $4.18 | $4.05 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.14 | $0.17 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $2.06 | $1.76 |
| Context | 1M | 524K |
| Max output | 262K | 472K |
| Accepts | text, image | text, image, audio |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 3 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $4.18 | $4.05 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 98.6% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | — |
Cost calculator
Mistral Large 4
$144 per month$4.81 per day
Inkling
$121 per month$4.03 per day
Inkling saves $23.55 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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