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Ling-3.0-flash vs Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-18.

	Ling-3.0-flash	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
Vendor	inclusionai	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	64.4	70.5
Input Price	$0.02/M	$0.50/M
Output Price	$0.06/M	$2.02/M
Context Window	262,144	524,288
Max Output	32,768	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	-	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	62.4	69.8
ai_index_agentic	48.4	56.3
ai_index_coding	83.6	85.9

Who wins by task?

Task	Ling-3.0-flash	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
SQL Generation	159	156
Code Review	152	156
Code Completion	130	132
Code Refactoring	148	154
Bug Fixing	162	171
Unit Test Generation	144	140
Code Documentation	135	141
Regex Writing	132	133
CI/CD Pipelines	135	136
Frontend Component Design	110	138
Data Analysis	158	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	145	139
ETL Scripting	142	145
JSON Extraction	146	134
Bulk Data Labeling	134	130
OCR / Document Parsing	95	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	95	136
Long-Document Summarization	146	155
Short-Form Summarization	130	130
Blog Post Writing	133	136

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