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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 2026-08-01.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)
Vendor	thinkingmachines	google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	56.9
Input Price	$0.50/M	Free
Output Price	$1.20/M	Free
Context Window	524,288	262,144
Max Output	-	32,768
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	66.3	48.4
ai_index_agentic	50.8	23.8
ai_index_coding	87.4	71.7
eqbench	-	70.8

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Google: Gemma 4 31B (free)
SQL Generation	155	157
Code Review	155	154
Code Completion	133	132
Code Refactoring	154	152
Bug Fixing	169	161
Unit Test Generation	140	143
Code Documentation	140	138
Regex Writing	132	132
CI/CD Pipelines	135	136
Frontend Component Design	137	138
Data Analysis	156	152
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	146
ETL Scripting	144	144
JSON Extraction	134	143
Bulk Data Labeling	130	133
OCR / Document Parsing	136	140
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	140
Long-Document Summarization	155	151
Short-Form Summarization	130	130
Blog Post Writing	136	134

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