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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
Vendor	thinkingmachines	moonshotai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	73.4
Input Price	$0.50/M	$0.73/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$3.50/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	69.2
ai_index_agentic	50.8	48.8
ai_index_coding	87.4	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
SQL Generation	155	163
Code Review	155	155
Code Completion	133	129
Code Refactoring	154	151
Bug Fixing	169	165
Unit Test Generation	140	147
Code Documentation	140	135
Regex Writing	132	133
CI/CD Pipelines	135	138
Frontend Component Design	137	142
Data Analysis	156	162
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	147
ETL Scripting	144	144
JSON Extraction	134	147
Bulk Data Labeling	130	134
OCR / Document Parsing	136	142
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	142
Long-Document Summarization	155	147
Short-Form Summarization	130	130
Blog Post Writing	136	134

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