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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash

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

Thinking Machines: Inkling Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash
Vendorthinkingmachinesgoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score39.453.5
Input Price$1.00/M$1.50/M
Output Price$4.05/M$9.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output471,85965,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output-
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio
Benchmark Scores
ai_index41.253.8

Who wins by task?

TaskThinking Machines: InklingGoogle: Gemini 3.5 Flash
SQL Generation 130 139
Code Review 135 142
Code Completion 119 119
Code Refactoring 138 144
Bug Fixing 143 146
Unit Test Generation 120 130
Regex Writing 123 123
CI/CD Pipelines 120 126
Frontend Component Design 122 128
Data Analysis 126 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 123 135
ETL Scripting 129 135
JSON Extraction 111 121
Bulk Data Labeling 116 118
OCR / Document Parsing 125 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 125 133
Long-Document Summarization 144 145
Short-Form Summarization 117 116
Blog Post Writing 126 127

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

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