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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch) vs Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)

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

	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
Vendor	deepseek	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	80.1	55.7
Input Price	$0.11/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$0.33/M	$4.05/M
Context Window	1,048,576	524,288
Max Output	943,718	471,859
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	57.8	42.1
ai_index_agentic	79.4	40.1
ai_index_coding	100.0	85.9

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
SQL Generation	169	150
Code Review	161	149
Code Completion	133	119
Code Refactoring	159	149
Bug Fixing	175	162
Unit Test Generation	151	136
Code Documentation	141	137
Regex Writing	134	129
CI/CD Pipelines	141	131
Frontend Component Design	143	133
Data Analysis	167	149
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	137
ETL Scripting	150	140
JSON Extraction	149	125
Bulk Data Labeling	135	121
OCR / Document Parsing	145	134
Table Extraction from PDFs	145	134
Long-Document Summarization	156	150
Short-Form Summarization	131	120
Blog Post Writing	137	132

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