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Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-06.

	Meta: Muse Spark 1.2	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Vendor	meta	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	90.9	68.9
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	-	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	89.2	66.3
ai_index_agentic	77.2	50.8
ai_index_coding	100.0	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Meta: Muse Spark 1.2	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
SQL Generation	172	155
Code Review	167	155
Code Completion	120	133
Code Refactoring	164	154
Bug Fixing	181	169
Unit Test Generation	154	140
Code Documentation	143	140
Regex Writing	136	132
CI/CD Pipelines	145	135
Frontend Component Design	147	137
Data Analysis	171	156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	139
ETL Scripting	154	144
JSON Extraction	140	134
Bulk Data Labeling	126	130
OCR / Document Parsing	147	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	147	136
Long-Document Summarization	160	155
Short-Form Summarization	123	130
Blog Post Writing	140	136

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