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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

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

	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Vendor	~deepseek	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	99	100
Benchmark Score	-	44.5
Input Price	$0.03/M	$0.45/M
Output Price	$0.80/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,310,720	1,048,576
Max Output	943,718	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	-	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	45.8

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
SQL Generation	133	131
Code Review	131	136
Code Completion	131	132
Code Refactoring	135	139
Bug Fixing	135	144
Unit Test Generation	123	121
Code Documentation	131	135
Regex Writing	119	124
CI/CD Pipelines	119	121
Frontend Component Design	91	123
Data Analysis	123	126
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	133	123
ETL Scripting	127	130
JSON Extraction	131	119
Bulk Data Labeling	129	125
OCR / Document Parsing	85	125
Table Extraction from PDFs	85	125
Long-Document Summarization	137	145
Short-Form Summarization	123	126
Blog Post Writing	121	127

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