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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Vendor	thinkingmachines	qwen
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	44.5	26.9
Input Price	$0.45/M	$0.15/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$1.00/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	30.1

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
SQL Generation	131	134
Code Review	136	132
Code Completion	132	129
Code Refactoring	139	132
Bug Fixing	144	136
Unit Test Generation	121	124
Code Documentation	135	129
Regex Writing	124	122
CI/CD Pipelines	121	120
Frontend Component Design	123	125
Data Analysis	126	128
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	129
ETL Scripting	130	126
JSON Extraction	119	131
Bulk Data Labeling	125	129
OCR / Document Parsing	125	129
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	129
Long-Document Summarization	145	134
Short-Form Summarization	126	125
Blog Post Writing	127	122

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