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

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)	MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
Vendor	thinkingmachines	moonshotai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	68.7	96.2
Input Price	$0.50/M	$3.00/M
Output Price	$1.20/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	67.9	98.5
ai_index_agentic	52.6	89.5
ai_index_coding	87.4	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)	MoonshotAI: Kimi K3
SQL Generation	156	173
Code Review	155	170
Code Completion	133	118
Code Refactoring	154	167
Bug Fixing	170	185
Unit Test Generation	140	157
Code Documentation	141	141
Regex Writing	133	135
CI/CD Pipelines	135	147
Frontend Component Design	137	149
Data Analysis	156	175
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	153
ETL Scripting	145	157
JSON Extraction	134	138
Bulk Data Labeling	130	122
OCR / Document Parsing	136	147
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	147
Long-Document Summarization	155	161
Short-Form Summarization	130	122
Blog Post Writing	136	141

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