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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1
Vendor	thinkingmachines	x-ai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	44.5	-
Input Price	$0.45/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$2.00/M
Context Window	1,048,576	256,000
Max Output	262,144	230,400
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	45.8	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	SpaceXAI: Grok Build 0.1
SQL Generation	131	130
Code Review	136	126
Code Completion	132	116
Code Refactoring	139	127
Bug Fixing	144	130
Unit Test Generation	121	121
Code Documentation	135	125
Regex Writing	124	119
CI/CD Pipelines	121	117
Frontend Component Design	123	122
Data Analysis	126	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	127
ETL Scripting	130	122
JSON Extraction	119	123
Bulk Data Labeling	125	121
OCR / Document Parsing	125	128
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	128
Long-Document Summarization	145	129
Short-Form Summarization	126	115
Blog Post Writing	127	118

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