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

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

	Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Vendor	qwen	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	88.6	61.3
Input Price	$2.00/M	$0.45/M
Output Price	$6.00/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,000,000	1,048,576
Max Output	131,072	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	77.4	53.3
ai_index_agentic	82.3	41.4
ai_index_coding	100.0	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
SQL Generation	171	152
Code Review	165	151
Code Completion	119	132
Code Refactoring	163	151
Bug Fixing	180	165
Unit Test Generation	153	137
Code Documentation	141	139
Regex Writing	135	131
CI/CD Pipelines	144	133
Frontend Component Design	146	135
Data Analysis	170	152
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	138
ETL Scripting	153	142
JSON Extraction	139	134
Bulk Data Labeling	125	130
OCR / Document Parsing	146	135
Table Extraction from PDFs	146	135
Long-Document Summarization	158	152
Short-Form Summarization	122	129
Blog Post Writing	139	134

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