Qwen3.8 Omni Flash is an omni-modal reasoning model from Alibaba, the first Qwen model built around agentic capabilities with native audio-video understanding. It is suited for audio-video analysis and summarization,...
Model details →Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash vs Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)
Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) wins on 3 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 | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash | Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1M | 1.0M | 🏆 Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.15 | $0.00 | 🏆 Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $0.47 | $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 Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash better than Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)?
Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash and Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)?
Input: $0.15 vs $0.00 per 1M tokens. Output: $0.47 vs $0.00 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash and Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) support?
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash supports up to 1M tokens. Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) supports up to 1.0M tokens.
Do both Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash and Thinking Machines: Inkling (free) support tool calling?
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash: yes. Thinking Machines: Inkling (free): yes.