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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-01.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
Vendor	thinkingmachines	mistralai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	52.5
Input Price	$0.50/M	$1.50/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$7.50/M
Context Window	524,288	262,144
Max Output	-	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	66.3	49.4
ai_index_agentic	50.8	31.3
ai_index_coding	87.4	77.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
SQL Generation	155	153
Code Review	155	147
Code Completion	133	116
Code Refactoring	154	144
Bug Fixing	169	155
Unit Test Generation	140	140
Code Documentation	140	131
Regex Writing	132	128
CI/CD Pipelines	135	132
Frontend Component Design	137	137
Data Analysis	156	151
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	142
ETL Scripting	144	138
JSON Extraction	134	134
Bulk Data Labeling	130	123
OCR / Document Parsing	136	139
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	139
Long-Document Summarization	155	141
Short-Form Summarization	130	119
Blog Post Writing	136	129

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