Model vs model
Inkling vs Kimi K2.7 Code
Kimi K2.7 Code and Inkling cost nearly the same, at $1.71 and $1.76 per 1M tokens blended, so price barely separates them. Kimi K2.7 Code is slightly cheaper and scores higher on the Intelligence Index, 25.8 against 25. Choose Inkling for tool use, where it leads τ-Bench Banking 29.1 to 20.2. Choose Kimi K2.7 Code for coding and hard reasoning.
At a glance
Longer bar means the bigger number.
Blended price · per 1M tokens, lower is better
Intelligence Index · Artificial Analysis, higher is better
Where they sit among all 44 models
Inkling ranks 29th of the 43 models with an Intelligence Index, Kimi K2.7 Code 26th. Up and to the left is smarter for less money. Hover or tap a dot for its numbers, then click it to compare that model with Inkling.
Which one to pick
Pick Inkling if
- you care about τ-Bench Banking (tool use): 29.1 vs 20.2
- you need to send PDFs
Pick Kimi K2.7 Code if
- you want the lower bill ($1.71 vs $1.76 per 1M tokens blended)
- you care about coding: 60.8 vs 52.1
- you need to send video
How smart is each one?
Of the 16 scores both models have, Kimi K2.7 Code is ahead on 7 and Inkling on 5, and 4 are within a point.
Every intelligence score we have
Out of 100, higher is better. Inkling Kimi K2.7 Code
Overall
Intelligence Index
25 · 25.8
By area
Coding
52.160.8Agentic work
22.521
By field of work
Finance & accounting
29.5 · 28.9Legal
31.427.7Healthcare & medicine
24.525.9Economics
38.536.5Engineering
27.729.1Strategy & operations
23.228
Benchmarks
Factual knowledge · SimpleQA
40.336.5Hard reasoning · Humanity's Last Exam
31.935Science · GPQA Diamond
87.2 · 89.6Scientific coding · SciCode
47 · 47.8Terminal tasks · Terminal-Bench 4.0
1 eachTool use · τ-Bench Banking
29.120.2Instruction following · IFBench
63.1Inkling: not scored yet
Long documents · AA-LCR
77.379.3
Our tests
Rule that has to last 4 turns · our test, % of tries passed
100Inkling: not scored yet
Three bullets, no letter e · our test, % of tries passed
100Inkling: not scored yet
The specs
| Spec | Inkling | Kimi K2.7 Code |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $1 per 1M | $0.95 per 1M |
| Output price | $4.05 per 1M | $4 per 1M |
| Cost per test task | Not tested | $0.5412 |
| Context window | 256K | 262K |
| Max output | 256K | 262K |
| Accepts | Text, Image, PDF | Text, Image, Video |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes |
| Lab | Thinking Machines | Kimi |
| Released | Jul 2026 | Jun 2026 |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not published | Jan 2025 |
Blended price weighs 3 parts input to 1 part output. List prices from models.dev. Cost per test task from Artificial Analysis.
Questions
Is Inkling or Kimi K2.7 Code cheaper?
Kimi K2.7 Code is cheaper. It charges $0.95 per 1M input tokens and $4 per 1M output tokens, against $1 and $4.05 for Inkling. Blended 3 parts input to 1 part output, that is $1.71 against $1.76 per 1M tokens.
Which is smarter, Inkling or Kimi K2.7 Code?
They score about the same on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: Inkling 25, Kimi K2.7 Code 25.8. The biggest differences are on τ-Bench Banking (29.1 vs 20.2) and Coding (52.1 vs 60.8).
Which has the longer context window?
They are about the same: Inkling accepts 256K tokens and Kimi K2.7 Code 262K.
Can I compare Inkling and Kimi K2.7 Code on my own prompt?
Yes. ModelCompare sends one prompt to both models at once and shows each answer side by side with what it cost. You can try it free without an account.
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Where the numbers come from
Intelligence Index and benchmark scores are from Artificial Analysis, at each model’s highest effort, except SimpleQA, which is from Epoch AI, and the Uncensored score, which is from the UGI Leaderboard. The hallucination test is ours: questions with one exact answer, fake evidence pushed against right answers and requests that tempt a model to name packages that don’t exist. Prices are list prices from models.dev. Example answers come from our own test runs. Updated October 25, 2026.