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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
Vendor	thinkingmachines	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	51.8
Input Price	$0.50/M	$0.07/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$0.34/M
Context Window	524,288	262,144
Max Output	-	16,384
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	66.3	42.4
ai_index_agentic	50.8	18.1
ai_index_coding	87.4	64.9
eqbench	-	70.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B
SQL Generation	155	154
Code Review	155	151
Code Completion	133	132
Code Refactoring	154	150
Bug Fixing	169	158
Unit Test Generation	140	141
Code Documentation	140	137
Regex Writing	132	130
CI/CD Pipelines	135	134
Frontend Component Design	137	137
Data Analysis	156	149
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	144
ETL Scripting	144	142
JSON Extraction	134	142
Bulk Data Labeling	130	133
OCR / Document Parsing	136	139
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	139
Long-Document Summarization	155	149
Short-Form Summarization	130	129
Blog Post Writing	136	132

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