AllocateGemini 3.5 Flash vs Inkling
On provider list prices, Inkling costs $1.87 per million input tokens against $1.50 for Gemini 3.5 Flash: effectively level. Output is $4.68 against $9 (1.9x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
InklingSpecifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-08. Billed price is list plus the 7% transaction fee.
What the numbers say
Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each. That workload costs $3,882 a month on Inkling and $4,950 on Gemini 3.5 Flash at list: a gap of $1,068, or 1.3x.
Choose Gemini 3.5 Flash for
- High-volume support and triage
- Document extraction at scale
- Vision and OCR pipelines
Choose Inkling for
- Open weights you can fine-tune and own
- Fine-tuning under a permissive license (Apache 2.0)
- Published cached-input pricing ($0.37 per M tokens)
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Inkling?
Inkling, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $1.87/$4.68 per million tokens in and out against $1.50/$9 for Gemini 3.5 Flash. Billed on Allocate: $2.00/$5.01 against $1.60/$9.63, list plus 7%.
Which has the bigger context window?
They match: both read 1,000,000 tokens (1M) per request.
Can I fine-tune Gemini 3.5 Flash or Inkling?
Inkling publishes open weights (Apache 2.0) and can be fine-tuned on your own data. Gemini 3.5 Flash is a closed model served over API; its weights are not available.
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Run the numbers on your workload
Or don’t choose. On Allocate a route name is the contract: point yours at one model today, swap to the other tomorrow, and compare them on your live traffic with per-token metering.