Claude Sonnet 5 vs Inkling Small

rates, context and capabilities side by side on the impossibl api, and what the same workload costs on each.

the models at a glance: base rates, context window and modalities
specificationClaude Sonnet 5

anthropic/claude-sonnet-5

Inkling Small

thinkingmachines/inkling-small

input · usd / 1m tok$2.00$0.58
output · usd / 1m tok$10.00$1.44
context window1mtokens65.54ktokens
modalities · in → out

takes text and image in, gives text out

takes text and image in, gives text out

pricing

base api rates by model
base api rates · usd per 1m tokensClaude Sonnet 5

anthropic/claude-sonnet-5

Inkling Small

thinkingmachines/inkling-small

input$2.00$0.58
output$10.00$1.44
cache read$0.20$0.116
cache write · default ttl$2.50not published
cache write · 1h ttl$4.00not published

the estimate below prices one workload at these rates on every model.

specifications

published specifications by model
as publishedClaude Sonnet 5

anthropic/claude-sonnet-5

Inkling Small

thinkingmachines/inkling-small

creatorAnthropicThinking Machines
model typeText generationText generation
context window1,000,000tokens65,536tokens
input

takes text and image in, gives text out

takes text and image in, gives text out

outputtexttext
tool callingnot verifiednot verified
releasedjun 30, 2026not published
endpoint/v1/chat/completions/v1/chat/completions

unknown means the public catalog does not establish that fact. a model's documented capabilities can differ from what a particular api supports. see the model documentation for integration details.

benchmarks

benchmark scores by model, primary tested configuration
primary configurationClaude Sonnet 5

anthropic/claude-sonnet-5

max effort

Inkling Small

thinkingmachines/inkling-small

no benchmarks yet

intelligence index · gateway rank38.4#23 of 90not measured
coding index71.5#19 of 60not measured
agentic index44.3#14 of 49not measured
omniscience16.4#19 of 86not measured
gpqa91.1%#29 of 88
not measured
humanity’s last exam41.3%#23 of 89
not measured
terminal-bench v2.180.5%#21 of 57
not measured
harvey lab90.1%
not measured
aa-lcr82.0%
not measured
mmmu-pro77.3%
not measured
multilingual lcr55.0%
not measured
scicode54.3%
not measured
analystagent46.3%
not measured
tau banking37.3%
not measured
automationbench partial36.5%
not measured
critpt16.9%
not measured
terminal-bench v4.014.1%
not measured
gdp.pdf all-pass13.2%
not measured

Claude Sonnet 5 source ↗

each column describes the tested configuration named under the model; performance and costs can differ on impossibl. a score one model was not measured on is left blank rather than scored zero. indices are ranked against every model on the gateway with one. last checked 2026-09-11.

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one token workload, priced on every model at the published rates, in usd. change the numbers to match yours.

token workload

total input, including cached tokens

include billable reasoning tokens

the same token usage in each request

a subset of total input, never additional tokens

Claude Sonnet 5

anthropic/claude-sonnet-5

estimated usage cost

$7.00

1,000 requests × (1,000 uncached input × $2.00 + 500 output × $10.00) / 1,000,000 = $7.00

base rates; no context pricing tiers are published.

Inkling Small

thinkingmachines/inkling-small

estimated usage cost

$1.30

1,000 requests × (1,000 uncached input × $0.58 + 500 output × $1.44) / 1,000,000 = $1.30

base rates; no context pricing tiers are published.

estimates use published impossibl api usage rates. configured billing adjustments, funding fees, taxes, and custom workspace rates are excluded and may change the final amount.

image and audio usage, cache creation, and additional tool charges are excluded. reasoning tokens count as billable output, even when they are not visible in the response.

summary

Claude Sonnet 5 and Inkling Small are available through the Impossibl API. they share the /v1/chat/completions endpoint; the model identifier selects the model for a request.

Claude Sonnet 5 is created by Anthropic. It has a 1,000,000-token context window. Base API pricing (USD): $2.00 per million input tokens; $10.00 per million output tokens.

Inkling Small is created by Thinking Machines. It has a 65,536-token context window. Base API pricing (USD): $0.58 per million input tokens; $1.44 per million output tokens.

Claude Sonnet 5Inkling Small

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