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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 2026-09-23.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Meta: Muse Spark 1.1
Vendor	thinkingmachines	meta
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	44.5	55.7
Input Price	$0.45/M	$1.25/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$4.25/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	262,144	943,718
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	45.8	55.7

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Meta: Muse Spark 1.1
SQL Generation	131	140
Code Review	136	142
Code Completion	132	120
Code Refactoring	139	144
Bug Fixing	144	146
Unit Test Generation	121	130
Code Documentation	135	135
Regex Writing	124	124
CI/CD Pipelines	121	126
Frontend Component Design	123	128
Data Analysis	126	132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	135
ETL Scripting	130	135
JSON Extraction	119	122
Bulk Data Labeling	125	120
OCR / Document Parsing	125	133
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	133
Long-Document Summarization	145	146
Short-Form Summarization	126	117
Blog Post Writing	127	128

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