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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash vs Thinking Machines: Inkling

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-27.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash Thinking Machines: Inkling
Vendorqwenthinkingmachines
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-70.5
Input Price$0.16/M$0.95/M
Output Price$0.47/M$4.05/M
Context Window1,000,0001,048,576
Max Output131,072262,144
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-69.8
ai_index_agentic-56.3
ai_index_coding-85.9

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 FlashThinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation 133 164
Code Review 132 160
Code Completion 131 132
Code Refactoring 136 158
Bug Fixing 136 171
Unit Test Generation 124 148
Code Documentation 131 140
Regex Writing 119 132
CI/CD Pipelines 120 140
Frontend Component Design 122 142
Data Analysis 124 161
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 150
ETL Scripting 128 149
JSON Extraction 131 145
Bulk Data Labeling 129 133
OCR / Document Parsing 131 144
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 144
Long-Document Summarization 137 155
Short-Form Summarization 123 129
Blog Post Writing 121 136

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

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