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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash
Vendor	thinkingmachines	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	83.9
Input Price	$0.50/M	$1.50/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$7.50/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	82.6
ai_index_agentic	50.8	63.9
ai_index_coding	87.4	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash
SQL Generation	155	169
Code Review	155	165
Code Completion	133	119
Code Refactoring	154	162
Bug Fixing	169	177
Unit Test Generation	140	153
Code Documentation	140	141
Regex Writing	132	134
CI/CD Pipelines	135	143
Frontend Component Design	137	145
Data Analysis	156	167
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	153
ETL Scripting	144	153
JSON Extraction	134	139
Bulk Data Labeling	130	124
OCR / Document Parsing	136	146
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	146
Long-Document Summarization	155	158
Short-Form Summarization	130	122
Blog Post Writing	136	138

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