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

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
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	1,048,576
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
SQL Generation	169	158
Code Review	161	153
Code Completion	133	119
Code Refactoring	159	153
Bug Fixing	175	162
Unit Test Generation	151	144
Code Documentation	141	137
Regex Writing	134	129
CI/CD Pipelines	141	135
Frontend Component Design	143	137
Data Analysis	167	153
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	149
ETL Scripting	150	144
JSON Extraction	149	137
Bulk Data Labeling	135	125
OCR / Document Parsing	145	142
Table Extraction from PDFs	145	142
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 →