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Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) vs Thinking Machines: Inkling

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

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch) Thinking Machines: Inkling
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score83.969.7
Input Price$0.75/M$1.00/M
Output Price$3.75/M$4.05/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output65,536-
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓-
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index82.667.2
ai_index_agentic63.953.4
ai_index_coding100.085.9

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)Thinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation 169 155
Code Review 165 155
Code Completion 132 120
Code Refactoring 162 154
Bug Fixing 177 170
Unit Test Generation 153 140
Code Documentation 142 140
Regex Writing 135 132
CI/CD Pipelines 143 135
Frontend Component Design 145 137
Data Analysis 167 156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 153 138
ETL Scripting 153 144
JSON Extraction 148 125
Bulk Data Labeling 134 121
OCR / Document Parsing 146 136
Table Extraction from PDFs 146 136
Long-Document Summarization 158 154
Short-Form Summarization 131 121
Blog Post Writing 139 136

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

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