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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch) vs Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
Vendor	thinkingmachines	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	68.7	70.1
Input Price	$0.50/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$4.05/M
Context Window	524,288	524,288
Max Output	471,859	471,859
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	67.9	69.8
ai_index_agentic	52.6	56.3
ai_index_coding	87.4	85.9

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling (batch)
SQL Generation	156	156
Code Review	155	156
Code Completion	133	120
Code Refactoring	154	154
Bug Fixing	170	171
Unit Test Generation	140	140
Code Documentation	141	140
Regex Writing	133	132
CI/CD Pipelines	135	136
Frontend Component Design	137	138
Data Analysis	156	157
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	138
ETL Scripting	145	145
JSON Extraction	134	125
Bulk Data Labeling	130	121
Long-Document Summarization	155	155
Short-Form Summarization	130	121
Blog Post Writing	136	136

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

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