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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash

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
Vendor	thinkingmachines	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	44.5	53.5
Input Price	$0.45/M	$1.50/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$9.00/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	53.8

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash
SQL Generation	131	139
Code Review	136	142
Code Completion	132	119
Code Refactoring	139	144
Bug Fixing	144	146
Unit Test Generation	121	130
Code Documentation	135	134
Regex Writing	124	123
CI/CD Pipelines	121	126
Frontend Component Design	123	128
Data Analysis	126	132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	135
ETL Scripting	130	135
JSON Extraction	119	121
Bulk Data Labeling	125	118
OCR / Document Parsing	125	133
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	133
Long-Document Summarization	145	145
Short-Form Summarization	126	116
Blog Post Writing	127	127

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