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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch) vs Meta: Muse Spark 1.1

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)	Meta: Muse Spark 1.1
Vendor	thinkingmachines	meta
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	68.7	84.7
Input Price	$0.50/M	$1.25/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$4.25/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	67.9	87.8
ai_index_agentic	52.6	65.6
ai_index_coding	87.4	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)	Meta: Muse Spark 1.1
SQL Generation	156	170
Code Review	155	166
Code Completion	133	120
Code Refactoring	154	163
Bug Fixing	170	178
Unit Test Generation	140	153
Code Documentation	141	142
Regex Writing	133	135
CI/CD Pipelines	135	144
Frontend Component Design	137	146
Data Analysis	156	168
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	153
ETL Scripting	145	153
JSON Extraction	134	139
Bulk Data Labeling	130	126
OCR / Document Parsing	136	146
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	146
Long-Document Summarization	155	159
Short-Form Summarization	130	123
Blog Post Writing	136	139

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