Jamba Large 1.7 is the latest model in the Jamba open family, offering improvements in grounding, instruction-following, and overall efficiency. Built on a hybrid SSM-Transformer architecture with a 256K context...
Model details →AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 vs Thinking Machines: Inkling
Thinking Machines: Inkling wins on 5 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Inkling is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 41B active parameters out of 975B total. It is designed for general-purpose reasoning, coding, agentic and tool-use systems,...
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 | Thinking Machines: Inkling | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 256K | 1.0M | 🏆 Thinking Machines: Inkling |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $2.00 | $1.00 | 🏆 Thinking Machines: Inkling |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $8.00 | $4.05 | 🏆 Thinking Machines: Inkling |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | Yes | 🏆 Thinking Machines: Inkling |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | Yes | 🏆 Thinking Machines: Inkling |
Frequently asked questions
Is AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 better than Thinking Machines: Inkling?
Thinking Machines: Inkling wins on 5 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and Thinking Machines: Inkling?
Input: $2.00 vs $1.00 per 1M tokens. Output: $8.00 vs $4.05 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and Thinking Machines: Inkling support?
AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 supports up to 256K tokens. Thinking Machines: Inkling supports up to 1.0M tokens.
Do both AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and Thinking Machines: Inkling support tool calling?
AI21: Jamba Large 1.7: yes. Thinking Machines: Inkling: yes.