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Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free) vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

	Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free)	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Vendor	qwen	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	55.6	44.5
Input Price	Free	$0.45/M
Output Price	Free	$1.20/M
Context Window	262,144	1,048,576
Max Output	235,929	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	55.6	45.8

Who wins by task?

Task	Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free)	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
SQL Generation	137	131
Code Review	137	136
Code Completion	130	132
Code Refactoring	136	139
Bug Fixing	141	144
Unit Test Generation	127	121
Code Documentation	131	135
Regex Writing	125	124
CI/CD Pipelines	123	121
Frontend Component Design	128	123
Data Analysis	132	126
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	130	123
ETL Scripting	130	130
JSON Extraction	132	119
Bulk Data Labeling	130	125
OCR / Document Parsing	131	125
Table Extraction from PDFs	131	125
Long-Document Summarization	138	145
Short-Form Summarization	126	126
Blog Post Writing	125	127

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