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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max vs Thinking Machines: Inkling Small

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-04.

	Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
Vendor	qwen	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	-	69.0
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	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	-	66.3
ai_index_agentic	-	50.8
ai_index_coding	-	87.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small
SQL Generation	133	155
Code Review	132	155
Code Completion	118	133
Code Refactoring	136	154
Bug Fixing	136	169
Unit Test Generation	124	140
Code Documentation	130	140
Regex Writing	118	132
CI/CD Pipelines	120	135
Frontend Component Design	122	137
Data Analysis	124	156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	133	139
ETL Scripting	128	144
JSON Extraction	122	134
Bulk Data Labeling	119	130
OCR / Document Parsing	131	136
Table Extraction from PDFs	131	136
Long-Document Summarization	137	155
Short-Form Summarization	114	130
Blog Post Writing	121	136

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