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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 2026-09-23.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
Vendor	thinkingmachines	moonshotai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	44.5	40.9
Input Price	$0.45/M	$0.71/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$3.30/M
Context Window	1,048,576	262,144
Max Output	262,144	235,929
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	45.8	42.6

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	MoonshotAI: Kimi K2.7 Code
SQL Generation	131	136
Code Review	136	134
Code Completion	132	129
Code Refactoring	139	134
Bug Fixing	144	138
Unit Test Generation	121	126
Code Documentation	135	129
Regex Writing	124	123
CI/CD Pipelines	121	122
Frontend Component Design	123	127
Data Analysis	126	130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	129
ETL Scripting	130	128
JSON Extraction	119	131
Bulk Data Labeling	125	128
OCR / Document Parsing	125	130
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	130
Long-Document Summarization	145	136
Short-Form Summarization	126	125
Blog Post Writing	127	124

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