Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) vs Thinking Machines: Inkling
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) | Thinking Machines: Inkling | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | anthropic | thinkingmachines |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $2.50/M | $1.00/M |
| Output Price | $12.50/M | $4.05/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 524,288 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 471,859 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | - |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | ✓ |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Inkling costs $2.01 and Claude Opus 5 (batch) costs $5.62, so Inkling is about 2.8 times cheaper for the same work.
Claude Opus 5 (batch) reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 786 pages for Inkling.
Only Claude Opus 5 (batch) offers structured output; only Inkling offers audio input.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Claude Opus 5 (batch) scores higher on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Inkling on 6 (Code Completion, Code Documentation, Regex Writing and others).
Pick Claude Opus 5 (batch) if you need long documents, structured output or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Inkling if you need lower cost or audio input.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) | Thinking Machines: Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 132 | 125 |
| Code Review | 132 | 128 |
| Code Completion | 117 | 119 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 132 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 116 |
| Code Documentation | 129 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 117 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 116 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 118 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 120 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 132 | 121 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 124 |
| JSON Extraction | 121 | 111 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 117 | 116 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 123 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 123 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 136 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 113 | 115 |
| Blog Post Writing | 120 | 121 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →