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Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

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

	Meta: Muse Spark 1.3	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Vendor	meta	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	99.3	68.7
Input Price	$1.25/M	$0.45/M
Output Price	$4.25/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	943,718	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	100.0	67.9
ai_index_agentic	97.8	52.6
ai_index_coding	100.0	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Meta: Muse Spark 1.3	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
SQL Generation	176	156
Code Review	171	155
Code Completion	120	133
Code Refactoring	167	154
Bug Fixing	187	170
Unit Test Generation	157	140
Code Documentation	144	141
Regex Writing	138	133
CI/CD Pipelines	147	135
Frontend Component Design	149	137
Data Analysis	177	156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	155	139
ETL Scripting	157	145
JSON Extraction	140	134
Bulk Data Labeling	126	130
OCR / Document Parsing	148	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	148	136
Long-Document Summarization	163	155
Short-Form Summarization	124	130
Blog Post Writing	143	136

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