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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max vs Thinking Machines: Inkling

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

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Thinking Machines: Inkling
Vendorqwenthinkingmachines
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-69.7
Input Price$2.00/M$1.00/M
Output Price$6.00/M$4.05/M
Context Window1,000,0001,048,576
Max Output131,072-
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-67.2
ai_index_agentic-53.4
ai_index_coding-85.9

Who wins by task?

TaskQwen: Qwen3.8 MaxThinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation 133 163
Code Review 132 159
Code Completion 118 120
Code Refactoring 136 158
Bug Fixing 136 170
Unit Test Generation 124 148
Code Documentation 130 140
Regex Writing 118 132
CI/CD Pipelines 120 139
Frontend Component Design 122 141
Data Analysis 124 160
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 150
ETL Scripting 128 148
JSON Extraction 122 137
Bulk Data Labeling 119 125
OCR / Document Parsing 131 144
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 144
Long-Document Summarization 137 154
Short-Form Summarization 114 121
Blog Post Writing 121 136

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

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