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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch) vs Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)
Vendor	thinkingmachines	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	68.7	83.9
Input Price	$0.50/M	$0.38/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$1.88/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	85.1
ai_index_agentic	52.6	66.8
ai_index_coding	87.4	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash (batch)
SQL Generation	156	170
Code Review	155	165
Code Completion	133	133
Code Refactoring	154	163
Bug Fixing	170	178
Unit Test Generation	140	153
Code Documentation	141	143
Regex Writing	133	136
CI/CD Pipelines	135	143
Frontend Component Design	137	145
Data Analysis	156	168
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	154
ETL Scripting	145	153
JSON Extraction	134	148
Bulk Data Labeling	130	135
OCR / Document Parsing	136	146
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	146
Long-Document Summarization	155	159
Short-Form Summarization	130	131
Blog Post Writing	136	140

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