Verdict
Built from the measurements below
- Accuracy is too close to call: Inkling scored 66.2% and Kimi K2.7 Code 65.0% on the same 80 questions, a gap within what chance alone could produce.
- Inkling is 4.9× cheaper per question as billed ($0.0012 vs $0.006), reasoning tokens included.
- Kimi K2.7 Code generates text 1.2× faster: 136 tokens per second against 118.
- Kimi K2.7 Code starts answering sooner: 0.4 s to the first token, against 0.6 s for Inkling.
- Inkling accepts more context: 524k tokens against 262k.
Which should you choose?
Choose Inkling for the lower cost per correct answer ($0.0019 against $0.0092), shorter outputs (about 228 tokens per question against 1,781) and a 524k-token context window. Choose Kimi K2.7 Code for faster streaming, a quicker first token and more hosts to choose from on OpenRouter (11 against 1).
Accuracy gap +1.2 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.