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

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (batch)	Thinking Machines: Inkling
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	1,048,576
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
SQL Generation	156	164
Code Review	155	160
Code Completion	133	120
Code Refactoring	154	158
Bug Fixing	170	171
Unit Test Generation	140	148
Code Documentation	141	140
Regex Writing	133	132
CI/CD Pipelines	135	140
Frontend Component Design	137	142
Data Analysis	156	161
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	150
ETL Scripting	145	149
JSON Extraction	134	137
Bulk Data Labeling	130	125
OCR / Document Parsing	136	144
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	144
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 →