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

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

Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free) Thinking Machines: Inkling
Vendorqwenthinkingmachines
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score55.639.4
Input PriceFree$1.00/M
Output PriceFree$4.05/M
Context Window262,1441,048,576
Max Output235,929471,859
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓-
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio-✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index55.641.2

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 27B (free)Thinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation 137 130
Code Review 137 135
Code Completion 130 119
Code Refactoring 136 138
Bug Fixing 141 143
Unit Test Generation 127 120
Code Documentation 131 134
Regex Writing 125 123
CI/CD Pipelines 123 120
Frontend Component Design 128 122
Data Analysis 132 126
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 130 123
ETL Scripting 130 129
JSON Extraction 132 111
Bulk Data Labeling 130 116
OCR / Document Parsing 131 125
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 125
Long-Document Summarization 138 144
Short-Form Summarization 126 117
Blog Post Writing 125 126

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

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