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

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-22.

	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
Vendor	deepseek	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	-	70.5
Input Price	$0.22/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$0.66/M	$4.05/M
Context Window	1,048,576	524,288
Max Output	384,000	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	69.8
ai_index_agentic	-	56.3
ai_index_coding	-	85.9

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
SQL Generation	133	156
Code Review	132	156
Code Completion	131	120
Code Refactoring	136	154
Bug Fixing	136	171
Unit Test Generation	124	140
Code Documentation	131	140
Regex Writing	119	132
CI/CD Pipelines	120	136
Frontend Component Design	122	138
Data Analysis	124	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	133	138
ETL Scripting	128	145
JSON Extraction	131	125
Bulk Data Labeling	129	121
OCR / Document Parsing	131	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	131	136
Long-Document Summarization	137	155
Short-Form Summarization	123	121
Blog Post Writing	121	136

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