Verdict
Built from the measurements below
- Accuracy is too close to call: Inkling Small scored 67.5% and MiniMax M3.1 Flash 66.2% on the same 80 questions, a gap within what chance alone could produce.
- Inkling Small is 1.9× cheaper per question as billed ($0.00047 vs $0.00087), reasoning tokens included.
- Inkling Small generates text 1.8× faster: 233 tokens per second against 131.
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens against 524k.
Which should you choose?
Choose Inkling Small for the lower cost per correct answer ($0.00069 against $0.0013), faster streaming and shorter outputs (about 273 tokens per question against 1,376). Choose MiniMax M3.1 Flash for a 1M-token context window and more hosts to choose from on OpenRouter (11 against 1). The widest subject gap is in law: Inkling Small answered 4 of 6 correctly, MiniMax M3.1 Flash 2 of 6. With so few questions per subject, treat this as a lead to test on your own prompts, not a result.
Accuracy gap +1.3 points (z = 0.17). We call a winner only when z is at least 1.96, the usual 95% threshold. Speed, latency and price need a 10% margin.