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Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch) vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-04.

	Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Vendor	google	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	93.4	68.7
Input Price	$0.38/M	$0.45/M
Output Price	$1.88/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	65,536	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	96.8	67.9
ai_index_agentic	82.5	52.6
ai_index_coding	100.0	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
SQL Generation	173	156
Code Review	169	155
Code Completion	133	133
Code Refactoring	166	154
Bug Fixing	183	170
Unit Test Generation	156	140
Code Documentation	144	141
Regex Writing	138	133
CI/CD Pipelines	146	135
Frontend Component Design	148	137
Data Analysis	173	156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	155	139
ETL Scripting	156	145
JSON Extraction	149	134
Bulk Data Labeling	135	130
OCR / Document Parsing	147	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	147	136
Long-Document Summarization	162	155
Short-Form Summarization	132	130
Blog Post Writing	142	136

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