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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest

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

	Thinking Machines: Inkling	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest
Vendor	thinkingmachines	~anthropic
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	39.4	-
Input Price	$1.00/M	$2.00/M
Output Price	$4.05/M	$10.00/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,000,000
Max Output	471,859	128,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	-	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	41.2	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet Latest
SQL Generation	130	132
Code Review	135	132
Code Completion	119	117
Code Refactoring	138	136
Bug Fixing	143	136
Unit Test Generation	120	124
Code Documentation	134	129
Regex Writing	123	117
CI/CD Pipelines	120	120
Frontend Component Design	122	122
Data Analysis	126	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	132
ETL Scripting	129	128
JSON Extraction	111	121
Bulk Data Labeling	116	118
OCR / Document Parsing	125	131
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	131
Long-Document Summarization	144	136
Short-Form Summarization	117	113
Blog Post Writing	126	120

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