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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) vs Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-06.

	Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
Vendor	qwen	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	88.6	60.4
Input Price	$2.00/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$6.00/M	$4.05/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	77.4	53.1
ai_index_agentic	82.3	40.3
ai_index_coding	100.0	85.9

Who wins by task?

Task	Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
SQL Generation	171	152
Code Review	165	151
Code Completion	119	120
Code Refactoring	163	151
Bug Fixing	180	164
Unit Test Generation	153	137
Code Documentation	141	138
Regex Writing	135	130
CI/CD Pipelines	144	132
Frontend Component Design	146	134
Data Analysis	170	151
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	137
ETL Scripting	153	142
JSON Extraction	139	125
Bulk Data Labeling	125	121
OCR / Document Parsing	146	135
Table Extraction from PDFs	146	135
Long-Document Summarization	158	151
Short-Form Summarization	122	120
Blog Post Writing	139	133

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