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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 2026-08-01.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendor	thinkingmachines	minimax
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	77.2
Input Price	$0.50/M	$0.30/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$1.20/M
Context Window	524,288	1,048,576
Max Output	-	512,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	66.3	73.3
ai_index_agentic	50.8	58.3
ai_index_coding	87.4	96.6

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation	155	167
Code Review	155	162
Code Completion	133	133
Code Refactoring	154	160
Bug Fixing	169	173
Unit Test Generation	140	151
Code Documentation	140	142
Regex Writing	132	134
CI/CD Pipelines	135	141
Frontend Component Design	137	143
Data Analysis	156	164
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	153
ETL Scripting	144	151
JSON Extraction	134	147
Bulk Data Labeling	130	135
OCR / Document Parsing	136	145
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	145
Long-Document Summarization	155	156
Short-Form Summarization	130	131
Blog Post Writing	136	138

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