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Claude Opus 5 (batch) vs Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-08.

	Claude Opus 5 (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
Vendor	anthropic	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	100.0	70.5
Input Price	$2.50/M	$0.50/M
Output Price	$12.50/M	$2.02/M
Context Window	1,000,000	524,288
Max Output	128,000	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	100.0	69.8
ai_index_agentic	97.6	56.3
ai_index_coding	100.0	85.9

Who wins by task?

Task	Claude Opus 5 (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
SQL Generation	175	156
Code Review	171	156
Code Completion	119	132
Code Refactoring	167	154
Bug Fixing	187	171
Unit Test Generation	157	140
Code Documentation	142	141
Regex Writing	136	133
CI/CD Pipelines	147	136
Frontend Component Design	149	138
Data Analysis	177	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	139
ETL Scripting	157	145
JSON Extraction	138	134
Bulk Data Labeling	123	130
OCR / Document Parsing	148	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	148	136
Long-Document Summarization	162	155
Short-Form Summarization	122	130
Blog Post Writing	142	136

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →