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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-02.

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
Vendor	thinkingmachines	qwen
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	67.6
Input Price	$0.50/M	$0.33/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$1.95/M
Context Window	524,288	1,000,000
Max Output	-	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	66.3	65.3
ai_index_agentic	50.8	45.5
ai_index_coding	87.4	90.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus
SQL Generation	155	163
Code Review	155	158
Code Completion	133	132
Code Refactoring	154	157
Bug Fixing	169	168
Unit Test Generation	140	148
Code Documentation	140	140
Regex Writing	132	132
CI/CD Pipelines	135	139
Frontend Component Design	137	141
Data Analysis	156	159
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	151
ETL Scripting	144	148
JSON Extraction	134	146
Bulk Data Labeling	130	134
OCR / Document Parsing	136	144
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	144
Long-Document Summarization	155	154
Short-Form Summarization	130	130
Blog Post Writing	136	135

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