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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 2026-09-23.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
Vendor	thinkingmachines	mistralai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	44.5	19.3
Input Price	$0.45/M	$1.50/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$7.50/M
Context Window	1,048,576	262,144
Max Output	262,144	209,715
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	45.8	23.4

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Mistral: Mistral Medium 3.5
SQL Generation	131	133
Code Review	136	130
Code Completion	132	115
Code Refactoring	139	131
Bug Fixing	144	134
Unit Test Generation	121	124
Code Documentation	135	126
Regex Writing	124	120
CI/CD Pipelines	121	120
Frontend Component Design	123	124
Data Analysis	126	127
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	128
ETL Scripting	130	125
JSON Extraction	119	122
Bulk Data Labeling	125	119
OCR / Document Parsing	125	129
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	129
Long-Document Summarization	145	132
Short-Form Summarization	126	115
Blog Post Writing	127	121

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