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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest vs Thinking Machines: Inkling

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

	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest	Thinking Machines: Inkling
Vendor	~deepseek	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	99	100
Benchmark Score	-	39.4
Input Price	$0.03/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$0.80/M	$4.05/M
Context Window	1,310,720	1,048,576
Max Output	943,718	471,859
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	-	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	41.2

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Latest	Thinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation	133	130
Code Review	131	135
Code Completion	131	119
Code Refactoring	135	138
Bug Fixing	135	143
Unit Test Generation	123	120
Code Documentation	131	134
Regex Writing	119	123
CI/CD Pipelines	119	120
Frontend Component Design	91	122
Data Analysis	123	126
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	133	123
ETL Scripting	127	129
JSON Extraction	131	111
Bulk Data Labeling	129	116
OCR / Document Parsing	85	125
Table Extraction from PDFs	85	125
Long-Document Summarization	137	144
Short-Form Summarization	123	117
Blog Post Writing	121	126

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