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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling	Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest
Vendor	thinkingmachines	~anthropic
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	39.4	-
Input Price	$1.00/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$4.05/M	$5.00/M
Context Window	1,048,576	200,000
Max Output	471,859	64,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	41.2	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling	Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest
SQL Generation	130	129
Code Review	135	124
Code Completion	119	114
Code Refactoring	138	124
Bug Fixing	143	128
Unit Test Generation	120	120
Code Documentation	134	122
Regex Writing	123	118
CI/CD Pipelines	120	116
Frontend Component Design	122	122
Data Analysis	126	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	125
ETL Scripting	129	120
JSON Extraction	111	122
Bulk Data Labeling	116	120
OCR / Document Parsing	125	127
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	127
Long-Document Summarization	144	125
Short-Form Summarization	117	114
Blog Post Writing	126	117

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