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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) vs Thinking Machines: Inkling

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-30.

	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling
Vendor	google	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	62.4	69.7
Input Price	$0.15/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$1.25/M	$4.05/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	65,536	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	60.2	67.2
ai_index_agentic	44.3	53.4
ai_index_coding	81.4	85.9

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation	161	155
Code Review	156	155
Code Completion	132	120
Code Refactoring	156	154
Bug Fixing	166	170
Unit Test Generation	146	140
Code Documentation	140	140
Regex Writing	131	132
CI/CD Pipelines	137	135
Frontend Component Design	139	137
Data Analysis	156	156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	149	138
ETL Scripting	146	144
JSON Extraction	145	125
Bulk Data Labeling	134	121
OCR / Document Parsing	143	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	143	136
Long-Document Summarization	153	154
Short-Form Summarization	129	121
Blog Post Writing	135	136

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