Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Thinking Machines: Inkling | Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | thinkingmachines | ~anthropic |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $1.00/M | $0.10/M |
| Output Price | $4.05/M | $0.50/M |
| Context Window | 524,288 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output | 471,859 | 128,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | - | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | ✓ | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Claude Haiku Latest costs $0.23 and Inkling costs $2.01, so Claude Haiku Latest is about 8.9 times cheaper for the same work.
Claude Haiku Latest reads up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text, against about 786 pages for Inkling.
Only Inkling offers audio input; only Claude Haiku Latest offers structured output.
Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Claude Haiku Latest on 19 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Inkling was released in July 2026 and Claude Haiku Latest in April 2026.
Pick Inkling if you need audio input; pick Claude Haiku Latest if you need lower cost, long documents, structured output or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Thinking Machines: Inkling | Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 125 | 133 |
| Code Review | 128 | 132 |
| Code Completion | 119 | 131 |
| Code Refactoring | 132 | 136 |
| Unit Test Generation | 116 | 124 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 116 | 120 |
| Frontend Component Design | 118 | 122 |
| Data Analysis | 120 | 124 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 121 | 133 |
| ETL Scripting | 124 | 128 |
| JSON Extraction | 111 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 116 | 129 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 123 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 123 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 115 | 123 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 121 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →