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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

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 Small
Vendor	deepseek	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	-	69.1
Input Price	$0.22/M	$0.45/M
Output Price	$0.66/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	384,000	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	67.9
ai_index_agentic	-	52.6
ai_index_coding	-	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
SQL Generation	133	164
Code Review	132	159
Code Completion	131	133
Code Refactoring	136	158
Bug Fixing	136	170
Unit Test Generation	124	148
Code Documentation	131	141
Regex Writing	119	133
CI/CD Pipelines	120	139
Frontend Component Design	122	141
Data Analysis	124	160
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	133	151
ETL Scripting	128	149
JSON Extraction	131	146
Bulk Data Labeling	129	134
OCR / Document Parsing	131	144
Table Extraction from PDFs	131	144
Long-Document Summarization	137	155
Short-Form Summarization	123	130
Blog Post Writing	121	136

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