ling-3.0-flash vs inkling-small on multi step reasoning: 0.0 quality points, 21× price.

Both measured on the same held-out multi-step-reasoning suite: ling-3.0-flash at 1.000 and $0.0162, inkling-small at 1.000 and $0.3450 per thousand requests. Both figures come from the same held-out multi step reasoning suite, 50 scored items, measured the same way — so the comparison is like for like.

Both were run against the same held-out items on the same day, so the gap is a property of the models rather than of the test. A 21× price difference at this quality distance is the whole decision.

Someone is paying the difference. If that is you, the question worth asking is which of these two numbers your workload actually needs — and this is the measurement that answers it.

1 measurement cycle ran in the last 24 hours, 1 newly listed model was measured, no recipe reached a frontier.

The current numbers live on the measured answers; the method is public.