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

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

	Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
Vendor	google	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	93.4	70.1
Input Price	$0.75/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$3.75/M	$4.05/M
Context Window	1,048,576	524,288
Max Output	65,536	471,859
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	96.8	69.8
ai_index_agentic	82.5	56.3
ai_index_coding	100.0	85.9

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
SQL Generation	173	156
Code Review	169	156
Code Completion	133	120
Code Refactoring	166	154
Bug Fixing	183	171
Unit Test Generation	156	140
Code Documentation	144	140
Regex Writing	137	132
CI/CD Pipelines	146	136
Frontend Component Design	148	138
Data Analysis	173	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	138
ETL Scripting	156	145
JSON Extraction	148	125
Bulk Data Labeling	134	121
OCR / Document Parsing	147	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	147	136
Long-Document Summarization	162	155
Short-Form Summarization	132	121
Blog Post Writing	142	136

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