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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 vs Inkling

Inkling leads DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 25.0 to 24.4, and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 costs 14.5x less per output token ($0.28 vs $4.05 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 48 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 Replace Inkling
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeek
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$0.28
15
T InklingThinking Machines
Coding
31.5
Overall
46.5
Output $/M
$4.05
32
vs boards won of 48 shared, 1 tied

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 or Inkling: which to pick

Only Inkling has a coding score, 31.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 for output tokens 14.5x cheaper ($0.28 vs $4.05 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 524K tokens).

Model ADeepSeek V4 Flash 0423DeepSeekNot benchmarked1 independent benchmarkNo cost per solved taskModel BInklingThinking Machines31.5/1006 independent benchmarks$0.76 per solved task
Shared results
48
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 only
1
Inkling only
54
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 not benchmarked, Inkling 31.5 from 6 benchmarks.
Widest category
Coding, 13.3 points apart on average over 8 shared benchmarks.
Widest single gap
LMArena WebDev: React: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 1585 against Inkling 1404, 30.2 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 $0.28 against Inkling $4.05 per million output tokens, 14.5x apart.
Context window
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 takes 1.05M tokens, Inkling 524K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423BarsInklingTies
Coding44
Intelligence02
Agentic work10
Reasoning13
Math02
Knowledge13
Web design431 tie
General415
All shared boards15321 tie
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index44
Coding benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Inkling
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423InklingLeader
LiveBench codingNot measured64.0%Only Inkling measured
LMArena WebDev15821414DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
AA Coding Index52.052.1Inkling
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)Not measured85.5%Only Inkling measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)Not measured77.6%Only Inkling measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)Not measured0.5%Only Inkling measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)Not measured19.2%Only Inkling measured
Code migration (Vals AI)Not measured11.8%Only Inkling measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)Not measured0.0%Only Inkling measured
IOI (Vals AI)Not measured14.9%Only Inkling measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)Not measured47.6%Only Inkling measured
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)Not measured7.3%Only Inkling measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)Not measured26.1%Only Inkling measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)Not measured66.8%Only Inkling measured
SciCodeNot measured47.0%Only Inkling measured
FrontierCodeNot measured14.0%Only Inkling measured
FrontierSWENot measured4.1%Only Inkling measured
WeirdML45.6%32.3%DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
ALE-Bench678.2946.0Inkling
LMArena Text: coding14571466Inkling
LMArena Text: software and IT14531465Inkling
LMArena WebDev: React15851404DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
LMArena WebDev: HTML15581399DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Intelligence benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Inkling
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423InklingLeader
AA Intelligence Index24.425.0Inkling
Epoch Capabilities Index146.1148.4Inkling
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Inkling
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423InklingLeader
AA Agentic Index26.322.5DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
Design Arena: agents building web appsNot measured1196Only Inkling measured
LiveBench researchNot measured59.9%Only Inkling measured
LiveBench browserNot measured16.0%Only Inkling measured
LiveBench long agenticNot measured14.1%Only Inkling measured
SREBench (Vals AI)Not measured0.0%Only Inkling measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)Not measured46.6%Only Inkling measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)Not measured15.3%Only Inkling measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)Not measured28.4%Only Inkling measured
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured3.8%Only Inkling measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)Not measured38.4%Only Inkling measured
APEX-AgentsNot measured33.8%Only Inkling measured
Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13
Reasoning benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Inkling
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423InklingLeader
GPQA DiamondNot measured87.1%Only Inkling measured
LiveBench reasoningNot measured78.3%Only Inkling measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured78.5%Only Inkling measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured87.2%Only Inkling measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured31.9%Only Inkling measured
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)Not measured88.3%Only Inkling measured
ARC-AGINot measured79.5%Only Inkling measured
ARC-AGI-2Not measured36.5%Only Inkling measured
SimpleBench46.3%50.0%Inkling
Chess puzzlesNot measured21.0%Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14441451Inkling
LMArena Text: expert14411466Inkling
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14491448DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.2%Not measuredOnly DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
Math benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Inkling
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423InklingLeader
OTIS Mock AIMENot measured88.9%Only Inkling measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3Not measured33.3%Only Inkling measured
FrontierMath, tier 4Not measured4.9%Only Inkling measured
ProofBenchNot measured0.0%Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: math14261479Inkling
LMArena Text: mathematical work14321460Inkling
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13
Knowledge benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Inkling
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423InklingLeader
MMLU ProNot measured86.3%Only Inkling measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)Not measured83.0%Only Inkling measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)Not measured68.6%Only Inkling measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)Not measured75.3%Only Inkling measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)Not measured64.0%Only Inkling measured
MedCode (Vals AI)Not measured41.2%Only Inkling measured
SimpleQA VerifiedNot measured40.3%Only Inkling measured
LMArena Text: science14461455Inkling
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14481447DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
LMArena Text: legal and government14391448Inkling
LMArena Text: business and finance14251438Inkling
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index43
Web design benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Inkling
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423InklingLeader
Design Arena: websites12071224Inkling
Design Arena: UI components11621198Inkling
Design Arena: game dev11961165DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
Design Arena: data viz11271156Inkling
Design Arena: 3D11881160DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
Design Arena: all code categories12051205Tie
Design Arena: SVG11551108DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
Design Arena: ASCII art11091089DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
LiveBench designNot measured58.3%Only Inkling measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index415
General benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Inkling
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423InklingLeader
Vals IndexNot measured29.0%Only Inkling measured
LiveBench data analysisNot measured72.8%Only Inkling measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)Not measured58.5%Only Inkling measured
SAGE (Vals AI)Not measured36.5%Only Inkling measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)Not measured85.4%Only Inkling measured
Vals Multimodal IndexNot measured49.4%Only Inkling measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)Not measured77.3%Only Inkling measured
DTBench86.4%87.5%Inkling
LMCA35.9%37.6%Inkling
LMArena Text14321442Inkling
LMArena Text: instruction following14211425Inkling
LMArena Text: creative writing14031390DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
LMArena Text: English14411442Inkling
LMArena Text: non-English14191434Inkling
LMArena Text: Chinese14631493Inkling
LMArena Text: German14191445Inkling
LMArena Text: Japanese13891429Inkling
LMArena Text: Korean13831403Inkling
LMArena Text: French14391455Inkling
LMArena Text: Spanish14361449Inkling
LMArena Text: Russian14271430Inkling
LMArena Text: Polish14361450Inkling
LMArena Text: multi-turn14491437DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
LMArena Text: longer queries14341435Inkling
LMArena Text: writing and language14101404DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14001394DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423
Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Inkling
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423InklingLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423$0.0003Fits in one request
Inkling$0.0030Fits in one request

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423$0.0078Fits in one request
Inkling$0.061Fits in one request

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423$0.031Fits in one request
Inkling$0.235Fits in one request

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 and Inkling
SpecificationDeepSeek V4 Flash 0423Thinking Machines Inkling
MakerDeepSeekThinking Machines
WeightsOpen weightsOpen weights
ReleasedApril 24, 2026July 17, 2026
Context window1.05M524K
Input $/Mtok$0.14$0.975
Output $/Mtok$0.28$4.05
Coding indexNot benchmarked31.5
Independent measurements behind it16
Cost per solved taskNot computable$0.76
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 better than Inkling for coding?

Only Inkling has a coding score, 31.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 for output tokens 14.5x cheaper ($0.28 vs $4.05 per million) and a larger context window (1.05M against 524K tokens).

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 or Inkling?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 costs $0.14 per million input tokens and $0.28 per million output tokens; Inkling costs $0.975 and $4.05. Cost per solved task is known for Inkling only.

Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 or Inkling?

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423, with 1.05M tokens against 524K.

How many benchmarks is the DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 vs Inkling comparison based on?

48 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Inkling's on 6. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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