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

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-04.

	Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)
Vendor	qwen	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	97.2	68.7
Input Price	$2.00/M	$0.50/M
Output Price	$6.00/M	$1.20/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	95.8	67.9
ai_index_agentic	96.4	52.6
ai_index_coding	100.0	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)
SQL Generation	175	156
Code Review	170	155
Code Completion	120	133
Code Refactoring	167	154
Bug Fixing	186	170
Unit Test Generation	157	140
Code Documentation	143	141
Regex Writing	137	133
CI/CD Pipelines	147	135
Frontend Component Design	149	137
Data Analysis	176	156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	139
ETL Scripting	157	145
JSON Extraction	140	134
Bulk Data Labeling	125	130
OCR / Document Parsing	147	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	147	136
Long-Document Summarization	162	155
Short-Form Summarization	124	130
Blog Post Writing	142	136

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