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Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch) vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)	MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)
Vendor	thinkingmachines	moonshotai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	70.1	96.2
Input Price	$1.00/M	$3.00/M
Output Price	$4.05/M	$15.00/M
Context Window	524,288	1,048,576
Max Output	471,859	943,718
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	69.8	98.5
ai_index_agentic	56.3	89.5
ai_index_coding	85.9	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)	MoonshotAI: Kimi K3 (batch)
SQL Generation	156	173
Code Review	156	170
Code Completion	120	118
Code Refactoring	154	167
Bug Fixing	171	185
Unit Test Generation	140	157
Code Documentation	140	141
Regex Writing	132	135
CI/CD Pipelines	136	147
Frontend Component Design	138	149
Data Analysis	157	175
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	138	153
ETL Scripting	145	157
JSON Extraction	125	138
Bulk Data Labeling	121	122
OCR / Document Parsing	136	147
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	147
Long-Document Summarization	155	161
Short-Form Summarization	121	122
Blog Post Writing	136	141

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