Gemini 3 Pro is Google’s flagship frontier model for high-precision multimodal reasoning, combining strong performance across text, image, video, audio, and code with a 1M-token context window. Reasoning Details must be preserved when using…
Model details →Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Inkling Small is an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model from Thinking Machines Lab, with 12B active parameters out of 276B total. It is positioned as the smaller, more efficient member of...
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview | Thinking Machines: Inkling Small | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1.0M | 524K | 🏆 Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $2.00 | $0.50 | 🏆 Thinking Machines: Inkling Small |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $12.00 | $1.20 | 🏆 Thinking Machines: Inkling Small |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview better than Thinking Machines: Inkling Small?
Thinking Machines: Inkling Small wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview and Thinking Machines: Inkling Small?
Input: $2.00 vs $0.50 per 1M tokens. Output: $12.00 vs $1.20 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview and Thinking Machines: Inkling Small support?
Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview supports up to 1.0M tokens. Thinking Machines: Inkling Small supports up to 524K tokens.
Do both Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview and Thinking Machines: Inkling Small support tool calling?
Google: Gemini 3 Pro Preview: yes. Thinking Machines: Inkling Small: yes.
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