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

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
Vendor	thinkingmachines	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	68.7	62.0
Input Price	$0.50/M	$0.15/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$1.25/M
Context Window	524,288	1,048,576
Max Output	471,859	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	67.9	61.8
ai_index_agentic	52.6	44.8
ai_index_coding	87.4	81.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)
SQL Generation	156	161
Code Review	155	157
Code Refactoring	154	156
Bug Fixing	170	166
Unit Test Generation	140	146
Code Documentation	141	140
Regex Writing	133	131
CI/CD Pipelines	135	137
Frontend Component Design	137	139
Data Analysis	156	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	149
ETL Scripting	145	147
JSON Extraction	134	145
Bulk Data Labeling	130	134
OCR / Document Parsing	136	143
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	143
Long-Document Summarization	155	153
Short-Form Summarization	130	129
Blog Post Writing	136	135

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

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