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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Vendor	deepseek	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	66.3	44.5
Input Price	$0.15/M	$0.45/M
Output Price	$0.60/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	384,000	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	65.1	45.8

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
SQL Generation	141	131
Code Review	144	136
Code Completion	133	132
Code Refactoring	146	139
Bug Fixing	148	144
Unit Test Generation	131	121
Code Documentation	137	135
Regex Writing	126	124
CI/CD Pipelines	127	121
Frontend Component Design	129	123
Data Analysis	133	126
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	136	123
ETL Scripting	137	130
JSON Extraction	131	119
Bulk Data Labeling	129	125
OCR / Document Parsing	134	125
Table Extraction from PDFs	134	125
Long-Document Summarization	148	145
Short-Form Summarization	127	126
Blog Post Writing	129	127

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