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

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

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Thinking Machines: Inkling
Vendorqwenthinkingmachines
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score88.660.4
Input Price$2.00/M$1.00/M
Output Price$6.00/M$4.05/M
Context Window1,000,0001,048,576
Max Output131,072471,859
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index77.453.1
ai_index_agentic82.340.3
ai_index_coding100.085.9

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 Max (0902)Thinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation 171 160
Code Review 165 155
Code Completion 119 120
Code Refactoring 163 155
Bug Fixing 180 164
Unit Test Generation 153 145
Code Documentation 141 138
Regex Writing 135 130
CI/CD Pipelines 144 136
Frontend Component Design 146 138
Data Analysis 170 155
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 153 149
ETL Scripting 153 146
JSON Extraction 139 137
Bulk Data Labeling 125 125
OCR / Document Parsing 146 143
Table Extraction from PDFs 146 143
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 →

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