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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Vendor	thinkingmachines	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	62.4
Input Price	$0.50/M	$0.30/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$2.50/M
Context Window	524,288	1,048,576
Max Output	-	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	66.3	60.2
ai_index_agentic	50.8	44.3
ai_index_coding	87.4	81.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
SQL Generation	155	161
Code Review	155	156
Code Completion	133	132
Code Refactoring	154	156
Bug Fixing	169	166
Unit Test Generation	140	146
Code Documentation	140	139
Regex Writing	132	131
CI/CD Pipelines	135	137
Frontend Component Design	137	139
Data Analysis	156	156
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	149
ETL Scripting	144	146
JSON Extraction	134	145
Bulk Data Labeling	130	133
OCR / Document Parsing	136	143
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	143
Long-Document Summarization	155	153
Short-Form Summarization	130	129
Blog Post Writing	136	134

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