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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
Vendor	thinkingmachines	moonshotai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	79.3
Input Price	$0.50/M	$0.60/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$3.41/M
Context Window	524,288	262,144
Max Output	-	262,144
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	66.3	73.0
ai_index_agentic	50.8	49.9
ai_index_coding	87.4	100.0
eqbench	-	76.6

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.6
SQL Generation	155	168
Code Review	155	165
Code Completion	133	132
Code Refactoring	154	161
Bug Fixing	169	176
Unit Test Generation	140	153
Code Documentation	140	141
Regex Writing	132	136
CI/CD Pipelines	135	143
Frontend Component Design	137	146
Data Analysis	156	167
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	152
ETL Scripting	144	152
JSON Extraction	134	147
Bulk Data Labeling	130	134
OCR / Document Parsing	136	145
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	145
Long-Document Summarization	155	158
Short-Form Summarization	130	131
Blog Post Writing	136	140

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