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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch) vs Ling-3.0-flash

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)	Ling-3.0-flash
Vendor	thinkingmachines	inclusionai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	68.7	64.0
Input Price	$0.50/M	$0.02/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$0.06/M
Context Window	524,288	262,144
Max Output	471,859	32,768
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	-
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	67.9	62.4
ai_index_agentic	52.6	48.4
ai_index_coding	87.4	83.6

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)	Ling-3.0-flash
SQL Generation	156	159
Code Review	155	152
Code Completion	133	130
Code Refactoring	154	148
Bug Fixing	170	162
Unit Test Generation	140	144
Code Documentation	141	135
Regex Writing	133	132
CI/CD Pipelines	135	135
Frontend Component Design	137	110
Data Analysis	156	158
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	145
ETL Scripting	145	142
JSON Extraction	134	146
Bulk Data Labeling	130	134
OCR / Document Parsing	136	95
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	95
Long-Document Summarization	155	146
Short-Form Summarization	130	130
Blog Post Writing	136	133

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