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

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-16.

	Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Vendor	qwen	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	-	69.1
Input Price	$0.45/M	$0.45/M
Output Price	$3.20/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	262,144	524,288
Max Output	131,072	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	67.9
ai_index_agentic	-	52.6
ai_index_coding	-	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
SQL Generation	130	164
Code Review	126	159
Code Completion	128	133
Code Refactoring	127	158
Bug Fixing	130	170
Unit Test Generation	121	148
Code Documentation	125	141
Regex Writing	119	133
CI/CD Pipelines	117	139
Frontend Component Design	122	141
Data Analysis	124	160
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	128	151
ETL Scripting	122	149
JSON Extraction	131	146
Bulk Data Labeling	128	134
OCR / Document Parsing	128	144
Table Extraction from PDFs	128	144
Long-Document Summarization	129	155
Short-Form Summarization	123	130
Blog Post Writing	118	136

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