head-to-head

Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs OpenAI GPT Mini Latest

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	OpenAI GPT Mini Latest
Vendor	thinkingmachines	~openai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	-
Input Price	$0.50/M	$0.75/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$4.50/M
Context Window	524,288	400,000
Max Output	-	128,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	66.3	-
ai_index_agentic	50.8	-
ai_index_coding	87.4	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	OpenAI GPT Mini Latest
SQL Generation	155	133
Code Review	155	132
Code Completion	133	130
Code Refactoring	154	136
Bug Fixing	169	136
Unit Test Generation	140	124
Code Documentation	140	130
Regex Writing	132	119
CI/CD Pipelines	135	120
Frontend Component Design	137	122
Data Analysis	156	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	133
ETL Scripting	144	128
JSON Extraction	134	130
Bulk Data Labeling	130	128
OCR / Document Parsing	136	131
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	131
Long-Document Summarization	155	137
Short-Form Summarization	130	123
Blog Post Writing	136	121

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