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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Meta: Muse Spark 1.1

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-02.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Meta: Muse Spark 1.1
Vendor	thinkingmachines	meta
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	83.6
Input Price	$0.50/M	$1.25/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$4.25/M
Context Window	524,288	1,048,576
Max Output	-	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	66.3	83.5
ai_index_agentic	50.8	61.9
ai_index_coding	87.4	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Meta: Muse Spark 1.1
SQL Generation	155	169
Code Review	155	165
Code Completion	133	120
Code Refactoring	154	162
Bug Fixing	169	176
Unit Test Generation	140	153
Code Documentation	140	142
Regex Writing	132	135
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	126
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	139

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