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Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch) vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash
Vendor	thinkingmachines	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	70.5	84.3
Input Price	$0.50/M	$1.50/M
Output Price	$2.02/M	$9.00/M
Context Window	524,288	1,048,576
Max Output	-	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	69.8	85.7
ai_index_agentic	56.3	65.5
ai_index_coding	85.9	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash
SQL Generation	156	169
Code Review	156	165
Code Completion	132	119
Code Refactoring	154	163
Bug Fixing	171	178
Unit Test Generation	140	153
Code Documentation	141	141
Regex Writing	133	134
CI/CD Pipelines	136	143
Frontend Component Design	138	145
Data Analysis	157	168
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	153
ETL Scripting	145	153
JSON Extraction	134	138
Bulk Data Labeling	130	124
OCR / Document Parsing	136	146
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	146
Long-Document Summarization	155	158
Short-Form Summarization	130	122
Blog Post Writing	136	139

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