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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Thinking Machines: Inkling

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-06.

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Thinking Machines: Inkling
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score51.360.4
Input Price$0.30/M$1.00/M
Output Price$2.50/M$4.05/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output65,536471,859
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index45.553.1
ai_index_agentic26.540.3
ai_index_coding81.485.9

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteThinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation 156 160
Code Review 152 155
Code Completion 132 120
Code Refactoring 152 155
Bug Fixing 160 164
Unit Test Generation 143 145
Code Documentation 138 138
Regex Writing 128 130
CI/CD Pipelines 134 136
Frontend Component Design 136 138
Data Analysis 150 155
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 148 149
ETL Scripting 143 146
JSON Extraction 144 137
Bulk Data Labeling 133 125
OCR / Document Parsing 141 143
Table Extraction from PDFs 141 143
Long-Document Summarization 149 151
Short-Form Summarization 128 120
Blog Post Writing 132 133

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

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