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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch) vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (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 Small (batch)
Vendor	deepseek	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	80.1	56.9
Input Price	$0.11/M	$0.50/M
Output Price	$0.33/M	$1.20/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	43.0
ai_index_agentic	79.4	41.2
ai_index_coding	100.0	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)
SQL Generation	169	151
Code Review	161	149
Code Completion	133	132
Code Refactoring	159	149
Bug Fixing	175	163
Unit Test Generation	151	136
Code Documentation	141	138
Regex Writing	134	129
CI/CD Pipelines	141	131
Frontend Component Design	143	133
Data Analysis	167	150
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	137
ETL Scripting	150	140
JSON Extraction	149	134
Bulk Data Labeling	135	130
OCR / Document Parsing	145	134
Table Extraction from PDFs	145	134
Long-Document Summarization	156	150
Short-Form Summarization	131	128
Blog Post Writing	137	133

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