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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 2026-09-23.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
Vendor	thinkingmachines	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	44.5	34.2
Input Price	$0.45/M	$0.30/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$2.50/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	262,144	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	45.8	36.6

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
SQL Generation	131	138
Code Review	136	139
Code Completion	132	132
Code Refactoring	139	141
Bug Fixing	144	143
Unit Test Generation	121	128
Code Documentation	135	134
Regex Writing	124	123
CI/CD Pipelines	121	124
Frontend Component Design	123	126
Data Analysis	126	129
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	135
ETL Scripting	130	133
JSON Extraction	119	131
Bulk Data Labeling	125	129
OCR / Document Parsing	125	132
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	132
Long-Document Summarization	145	143
Short-Form Summarization	126	125
Blog Post Writing	127	126

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