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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Anthropic Claude Haiku Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-02.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Anthropic Claude Haiku Latest
Vendor	thinkingmachines	~anthropic
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	-
Input Price	$0.50/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$5.00/M
Context Window	524,288	200,000
Max Output	-	64,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	66.3	-
ai_index_agentic	50.8	-
ai_index_coding	87.4	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Anthropic Claude Haiku Latest
SQL Generation	155	129
Code Review	155	124
Code Completion	133	114
Code Refactoring	154	124
Bug Fixing	169	128
Unit Test Generation	140	120
Code Documentation	140	122
Regex Writing	132	118
CI/CD Pipelines	135	116
Frontend Component Design	137	122
Data Analysis	156	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	125
ETL Scripting	144	120
JSON Extraction	134	122
Bulk Data Labeling	130	120
OCR / Document Parsing	136	127
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	127
Long-Document Summarization	155	125
Short-Form Summarization	130	114
Blog Post Writing	136	117

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