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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Anthropic Claude Sonnet Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-01.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Anthropic Claude Sonnet Latest
Vendor	thinkingmachines	~anthropic
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	-
Input Price	$0.50/M	$2.00/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$10.00/M
Context Window	524,288	1,000,000
Max Output	-	128,000
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 Sonnet Latest
SQL Generation	155	132
Code Review	155	132
Code Completion	133	117
Code Refactoring	154	136
Bug Fixing	169	136
Unit Test Generation	140	124
Code Documentation	140	129
Regex Writing	132	117
CI/CD Pipelines	135	120
Frontend Component Design	137	122
Data Analysis	156	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	132
ETL Scripting	144	128
JSON Extraction	134	121
Bulk Data Labeling	130	118
OCR / Document Parsing	136	131
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	131
Long-Document Summarization	155	136
Short-Form Summarization	130	113
Blog Post Writing	136	120

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