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

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

	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
Vendor	google	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	62.3	70.5
Input Price	$0.30/M	$0.50/M
Output Price	$2.50/M	$2.02/M
Context Window	1,048,576	524,288
Max Output	65,536	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	61.8	69.8
ai_index_agentic	44.8	56.3
ai_index_coding	81.4	85.9

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
SQL Generation	161	156
Code Review	157	156
Code Completion	132	132
Code Refactoring	156	154
Bug Fixing	166	171
Unit Test Generation	146	140
Code Documentation	140	141
Regex Writing	131	133
CI/CD Pipelines	137	136
Frontend Component Design	139	138
Data Analysis	157	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	149	139
ETL Scripting	147	145
JSON Extraction	145	134
Bulk Data Labeling	133	130
OCR / Document Parsing	143	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	143	136
Long-Document Summarization	153	155
Short-Form Summarization	129	130
Blog Post Writing	135	136

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