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Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (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 Small (batch)
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score93.468.7
Input Price$0.75/M$0.50/M
Output Price$3.75/M$1.20/M
Context Window1,048,576524,288
Max Output65,536471,859
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓-
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index96.867.9
ai_index_agentic82.552.6
ai_index_coding100.087.4

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.8 FlashThinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)
SQL Generation 173 156
Code Review 169 155
Code Refactoring 166 154
Bug Fixing 183 170
Unit Test Generation 156 140
Code Documentation 144 141
Regex Writing 137 133
CI/CD Pipelines 146 135
Frontend Component Design 148 137
Data Analysis 173 156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 154 139
ETL Scripting 156 145
JSON Extraction 148 134
Bulk Data Labeling 134 130
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 →

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