Sonar Pro Search vs Inkling Small: side-by-side summary

Sonar Pro Search and Inkling Small are available through the OpenRouter API, so switching between them takes a model slug change rather than a new integration.

Sonar Pro Search, from Perplexity, has a 200,000-token context window and is priced at $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Inkling Small, from thinkingmachines, has a 1,048,576-token context window and is priced at $0.45/M tokens input, $1.20/M tokens output on OpenRouter.

Context window

• Sonar Pro Search: 200,000 tokens
• Inkling Small: 1,048,576 tokens

Price

• Sonar Pro Search: $3/M tokens input, $15/M tokens output
• Inkling Small: $0.45/M tokens input, $1.20/M tokens output

Provided by

• Sonar Pro Search: Perplexity
• Inkling Small: thinkingmachines

• Sonar Pro Search model details, providers and pricing
• Inkling Small model details, providers and pricing