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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)
Vendor	thinkingmachines	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	44.5	53.7
Input Price	$0.45/M	Free
Output Price	$1.20/M	Free
Context Window	1,048,576	262,144
Max Output	262,144	32,768
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	45.8	31.3
eqbench	-	70.8

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)
SQL Generation	131	140
Code Review	136	140
Code Completion	132	132
Code Refactoring	139	141
Bug Fixing	144	144
Unit Test Generation	121	130
Code Documentation	135	135
Regex Writing	124	126
CI/CD Pipelines	121	126
Frontend Component Design	123	128
Data Analysis	126	132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	134
ETL Scripting	130	133
JSON Extraction	119	132
Bulk Data Labeling	125	130
OCR / Document Parsing	125	131
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	131
Long-Document Summarization	145	143
Short-Form Summarization	126	127
Blog Post Writing	127	128

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