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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 2026-07-22.

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash Thinking Machines: Inkling
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Quality Score100100
Input Price$1.50/M$1.00/M
Output Price$7.50/M$4.05/M
Context Window1,048,576524,288
Max Output65,536-
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓-
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓✓

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.6 FlashThinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation 133 125
Code Review 132 128
Code Completion 118 119
Code Refactoring 136 132
Unit Test Generation 124 116
Code Documentation 130 131
Regex Writing 118 119
CI/CD Pipelines 120 116
Frontend Component Design 122 118
Data Analysis 124 120
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 121
ETL Scripting 128 124
JSON Extraction 122 111
Bulk Data Labeling 119 116
OCR / Document Parsing 131 123
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 123
Long-Document Summarization 137 137
Short-Form Summarization 114 115
Blog Post Writing 121 121

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

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