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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs Thinking Machines: Inkling

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Thinking Machines: Inkling
Vendor	thinkingmachines	thinkingmachines
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	44.5	39.4
Input Price	$0.45/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$4.05/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,048,576
Max Output	262,144	471,859
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	-
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	45.8	41.2

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	Thinking Machines: Inkling
SQL Generation	131	130
Code Review	136	135
Code Completion	132	119
Code Refactoring	139	138
Bug Fixing	144	143
Unit Test Generation	121	120
Code Documentation	135	134
Regex Writing	124	123
CI/CD Pipelines	121	120
Frontend Component Design	123	122
Data Analysis	126	126
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	123
ETL Scripting	130	129
JSON Extraction	119	111
Bulk Data Labeling	125	116
OCR / Document Parsing	125	125
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	125
Long-Document Summarization	145	144
Short-Form Summarization	126	117
Blog Post Writing	127	126

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