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Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)

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

	Meta: Muse Spark 1.2	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)
Vendor	meta	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	91.8	68.7
Input Price	$1.25/M	$0.50/M
Output Price	$4.25/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,048,576	524,288
Max Output	943,718	471,859
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	93.7	67.9
ai_index_agentic	81.4	52.6
ai_index_coding	100.0	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Meta: Muse Spark 1.2	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)
SQL Generation	173	156
Code Review	168	155
Code Completion	120	133
Code Refactoring	165	154
Bug Fixing	182	170
Unit Test Generation	155	140
Code Documentation	143	141
Regex Writing	137	133
CI/CD Pipelines	145	135
Frontend Component Design	147	137
Data Analysis	173	156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	139
ETL Scripting	155	145
JSON Extraction	140	134
Bulk Data Labeling	126	130
OCR / Document Parsing	147	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	147	136
Long-Document Summarization	161	155
Short-Form Summarization	124	130
Blog Post Writing	141	136

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