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Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Thinking Machines: Inkling

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

Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash Thinking Machines: Inkling
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score93.470.1
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_index96.869.8
ai_index_agentic82.556.3
ai_index_coding100.085.9

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.8 FlashThinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation 173 164
Code Review 169 160
Code Completion 133 120
Code Refactoring 166 158
Bug Fixing 183 171
Unit Test Generation 156 148
Code Documentation 144 140
Regex Writing 137 132
CI/CD Pipelines 146 140
Frontend Component Design 148 142
Data Analysis 173 161
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 154 150
ETL Scripting 156 149
JSON Extraction 148 137
Bulk Data Labeling 134 125
OCR / Document Parsing 147 144
Table Extraction from PDFs 147 144
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 →

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