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

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-04.

	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)
Vendor	deepseek	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	90.0	68.7
Input Price	$0.22/M	$0.50/M
Output Price	$0.66/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,048,576	524,288
Max Output	384,000	471,859
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	84.9	67.9
ai_index_agentic	87.2	52.6
ai_index_coding	100.0	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)
SQL Generation	173	156
Code Review	167	155
Code Completion	133	133
Code Refactoring	164	154
Bug Fixing	182	170
Unit Test Generation	155	140
Code Documentation	144	141
Regex Writing	137	133
CI/CD Pipelines	145	135
Frontend Component Design	147	137
Data Analysis	172	156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	139
ETL Scripting	155	145
JSON Extraction	149	134
Bulk Data Labeling	135	130
OCR / Document Parsing	147	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	147	136
Long-Document Summarization	160	155
Short-Form Summarization	132	130
Blog Post Writing	141	136

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