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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendor	thinkingmachines	minimax
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	44.5	47.2
Input Price	$0.45/M	$0.30/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	262,144	512,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	45.8	48.2

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation	131	139
Code Review	136	141
Code Completion	132	132
Code Refactoring	139	143
Bug Fixing	144	145
Unit Test Generation	121	129
Code Documentation	135	136
Regex Writing	124	124
CI/CD Pipelines	121	125
Frontend Component Design	123	127
Data Analysis	126	131
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	135
ETL Scripting	130	134
JSON Extraction	119	131
Bulk Data Labeling	125	129
OCR / Document Parsing	125	133
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	133
Long-Document Summarization	145	145
Short-Form Summarization	126	126
Blog Post Writing	127	127

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