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Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch) vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendor	thinkingmachines	minimax
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	70.5	77.0
Input Price	$0.50/M	$0.30/M
Output Price	$2.02/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	524,288	1,048,576
Max Output	-	512,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	69.8	74.9
ai_index_agentic	56.3	59.6
ai_index_coding	85.9	96.6

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation	156	167
Code Review	156	162
Code Completion	132	133
Code Refactoring	154	160
Bug Fixing	171	174
Unit Test Generation	140	151
Code Documentation	141	142
Regex Writing	133	134
CI/CD Pipelines	136	141
Frontend Component Design	138	143
Data Analysis	157	164
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	153
ETL Scripting	145	151
JSON Extraction	134	148
Bulk Data Labeling	130	135
OCR / Document Parsing	136	145
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	145
Long-Document Summarization	155	157
Short-Form Summarization	130	131
Blog Post Writing	136	138

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