Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model optimized for high-volume use cases. It outperforms Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite on overall quality and approaches Gemini 2.5 Flash performance across...
Model details →Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview vs Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)
Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) wins on 2 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 | Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview | Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1.0M | 262K | 🏆 Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.25 | $0.00 | 🏆 Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $1.50 | $0.00 | 🏆 Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) |
| 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 3.1 Flash Lite Preview better than Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)?
Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) wins on 2 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview and Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)?
Input: $0.25 vs $0.00 per 1M tokens. Output: $1.50 vs $0.00 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview and Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) support?
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview supports up to 1.0M tokens. Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) supports up to 262K tokens.
Do both Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview and Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) support tool calling?
Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview: yes. Thinking Machines: Inkling (free): yes.