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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

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

Thinking Machines: Inkling Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
Vendorthinkingmachinesgoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score39.4-
Input Price$1.00/M$0.25/M
Output Price$4.05/M$1.50/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output471,85965,536
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output-✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index41.2-

Who wins by task?

TaskThinking Machines: InklingGoogle: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
SQL Generation 130 133
Code Review 135 132
Code Completion 119 131
Code Refactoring 138 136
Bug Fixing 143 136
Unit Test Generation 120 124
Code Documentation 134 131
Regex Writing 123 119
CI/CD Pipelines 120 120
Frontend Component Design 122 122
Data Analysis 126 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 123 133
ETL Scripting 129 128
JSON Extraction 111 131
Bulk Data Labeling 116 129
OCR / Document Parsing 125 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 125 131
Long-Document Summarization 144 137
Short-Form Summarization 117 123
Blog Post Writing 126 121

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

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