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Thinking Machines: Inkling Small vs xAI: Grok Latest

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	xAI: Grok Latest
Vendor	thinkingmachines	~x-ai
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	69.0	10.8
Input Price	$0.50/M	$2.00/M
Output Price	$1.20/M	$6.00/M
Context Window	524,288	500,000
Max Output	-	-
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	66.3	12.4
ai_index_agentic	50.8	-
ai_index_coding	87.4	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling Small	xAI: Grok Latest
SQL Generation	155	134
Code Review	155	134
Code Completion	133	118
Code Refactoring	154	138
Bug Fixing	169	138
Unit Test Generation	140	125
Code Documentation	140	131
Regex Writing	132	119
CI/CD Pipelines	135	121
Frontend Component Design	137	123
Data Analysis	156	125
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	139	133
ETL Scripting	144	129
JSON Extraction	134	122
Bulk Data Labeling	130	119
OCR / Document Parsing	136	131
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	131
Long-Document Summarization	155	139
Short-Form Summarization	130	115
Blog Post Writing	136	122

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