Name: google/gemma-4-31B-it
Author: google

Question 1

What does this google/gemma-4-31B-it vs Inkling Small comparison cover?

Accepted Answer

It brings together documented inputs and outputs, token limits, deployment terms and available pricing. When both models have source-linked, verified results on a shared benchmark, those results are shown with their individual sources. The comparison is a starting point for evaluating your own workload.

Question 2

Which is cheaper: google/gemma-4-31B-it or Inkling Small?

Accepted Answer

The available pricing does not establish a comparable input and output token rate for both models. Check the billing unit and selected host in each profile. Images, speech, video and local inference can have different cost structures.

Question 3

Which has the larger context window: google/gemma-4-31B-it or Inkling Small?

Accepted Answer

google/gemma-4-31B-it lists 262.14K tokens and Inkling Small lists 1.05M. Inkling Small therefore has the larger recorded context window, but capacity alone is not a quality score.

Question 4

Which is faster: google/gemma-4-31B-it or Inkling Small?

Accepted Answer

There is no matched speed measurement for both models with the same source, host, region and date. Test the same prompts at your expected concurrency and measure time to the first useful response as well as complete task time.

Question 5

What input and output types do google/gemma-4-31B-it and Inkling Small support?

Accepted Answer

google/gemma-4-31B-it records image, text input and text output. Inkling Small records text, image, audio input and text output. “Not documented” means the current source record is incomplete; it does not prove that a modality is unsupported.

Question 6

Should I choose google/gemma-4-31B-it or Inkling Small?

Accepted Answer

Consider Inkling Small if you need larger context or larger maximum output. Test both on the same representative examples and judge the output against your acceptance criteria. Include tool failures, retries and the time to a completed task.

Specification	google/gemma-4-31B-it	Inkling Small
Provider	google	Thinkingmachines
Listed pricing route	google	Thinkingmachines
Model family	—	ling
Accepted inputs	image, text	text, image, audio
Produced outputs	text	text
Context window	262.14K	1.05MHigher
Max output	32.77K	1.05MHigher
Input price / 1M	—	$0.50
Output price / 1M	—	$1.20
Reasoning mode	Documented	Documented
Tool calling	Documented	Documented
Image input	Documented	Documented
Audio input	Not documented	Documented
Structured output	Not documented	Not documented
License	Not documented	Apache-2.0

google/gemma-4-31B-it vs Inkling Small

google/gemma-4-31B-it

Inkling Small

Key differences

Pricing, limits and capabilities

Which model should you choose?

Documentation and model profiles

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