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Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Thinking Machines: Inkling

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

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash Thinking Machines: Inkling
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score73.760.4
Input Price$0.75/M$1.00/M
Output Price$3.75/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_index66.553.1
ai_index_agentic50.140.3
ai_index_coding100.085.9

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.6 FlashThinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation 165 160
Code Review 160 155
Code Completion 132 120
Code Refactoring 159 155
Bug Fixing 171 164
Unit Test Generation 150 145
Code Documentation 140 138
Regex Writing 132 130
CI/CD Pipelines 140 136
Frontend Component Design 142 138
Data Analysis 162 155
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 152 149
ETL Scripting 149 146
JSON Extraction 147 137
Bulk Data Labeling 134 125
OCR / Document Parsing 145 143
Table Extraction from PDFs 145 143
Long-Document Summarization 155 151
Short-Form Summarization 129 120
Blog Post Writing 136 133

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

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