# Kimi K2.7 Code vs Inkling

On provider list prices, Kimi K2.7 Code costs $0.95 per million input tokens against $1.87 for Inkling: 2.0x apart. Output is $4 against $4.68 (1.2x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## Specifications

| | Kimi K2.7 Code | Inkling |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Moonshot AI | Thinking Machines |
| Access | Open weights | Open weights |
| Context window | 256K tokens | 1M tokens |
| List price, input | $0.95 / M tokens | $1.87 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $4 / M tokens | $4.68 / M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.19 / M tokens | $0.37 / M tokens |
| License | Not listed | Apache 2.0 |
| Fine-tunable | Yes | Yes |

Specifications 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 $2,540 a month on Kimi K2.7 Code and $3,882 on Inkling at list: a gap of $1,342, or 1.5x.

Inkling reads 1M tokens per request against 256K for Kimi K2.7 Code, 3.8x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

## Choose Kimi K2.7 Code for

- The lower list price ($0.95 in / $4 out per M tokens)

## Choose Inkling for

- The longer context window (1M vs 256K tokens)
- Fine-tuning under a permissive license (Apache 2.0)

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.7 Code or Inkling?

Kimi K2.7 Code, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.95/$4 per million tokens in and out against $1.87/$4.68 for Inkling. Billed on Allocate: $1.02/$4.28 against $2.00/$5.01, list plus 7%.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Inkling: 1,000,000 tokens (1M) against 262,144 (256K) for Kimi K2.7 Code.

### Can I fine-tune Kimi K2.7 Code or Inkling?

Both publish open weights (Kimi K2.7 Code: Not listed; Inkling: Apache 2.0), so both can be fine-tuned. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.

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