Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash vs Thinking Machines: Inkling
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash | Thinking Machines: Inkling | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | qwen | thinkingmachines |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.03/M | $1.00/M |
| Output Price | $0.13/M | $4.05/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 524,288 |
| Max Output | 65,536 | 471,859 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | - |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | ✓ |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Qwen3.7 Flash costs $0.062 and Inkling costs $2.01, so Qwen3.7 Flash is about 32.2 times cheaper for the same work.
Qwen3.7 Flash reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 786 pages for Inkling.
Only Qwen3.7 Flash offers structured output and video input; only Inkling offers audio input.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Qwen3.7 Flash scores higher on 19 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Pick Qwen3.7 Flash if you need lower cost, long documents, structured output, video input or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Inkling if you need audio input.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Qwen: Qwen3.7 Flash | Thinking Machines: Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 134 | 125 |
| Code Review | 132 | 128 |
| Code Completion | 132 | 119 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 132 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 116 |
| Code Documentation | 132 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 120 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 116 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 118 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 120 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 134 | 121 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 124 |
| JSON Extraction | 132 | 111 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 130 | 116 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 123 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 123 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 138 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 124 | 115 |
| Blog Post Writing | 122 | 121 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →