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

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

	Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)
Vendor	qwen	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	89.4	68.7
Input Price	$0.42/M	$0.50/M
Output Price	$3.00/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,000,000	524,288
Max Output	131,072	471,859
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	85.8	67.9
ai_index_agentic	83.9	52.6
ai_index_coding	100.0	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)
SQL Generation	172	156
Code Review	167	155
Code Refactoring	164	154
Bug Fixing	181	170
Unit Test Generation	155	140
Code Documentation	143	141
Regex Writing	136	133
CI/CD Pipelines	145	135
Frontend Component Design	147	137
Data Analysis	172	156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	139
ETL Scripting	154	145
JSON Extraction	148	134
Bulk Data Labeling	134	130
OCR / Document Parsing	147	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	147	136
Long-Document Summarization	160	155
Short-Form Summarization	132	130
Blog Post Writing	141	136

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

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