Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Google: Gemini Flash Latest
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Thinking Machines: Inkling | Google: Gemini Flash Latest | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | thinkingmachines | |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $1.00/M | $0.75/M |
| Output Price | $4.05/M | $3.75/M |
| Context Window | 524,288 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 471,859 | 65,536 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | - | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | ✓ | ✓ |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Gemini Flash Latest costs $1.69 and Inkling costs $2.01, so Gemini Flash Latest is slightly cheaper for the same work.
Gemini Flash Latest reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 786 pages for Inkling.
Only Gemini Flash Latest offers structured output and video input.
Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Gemini Flash Latest on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).
Inkling was released in July 2026 and Gemini Flash Latest in April 2026.
Pick Gemini Flash Latest if you need lower cost, long documents, structured output, video input 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 | Google: Gemini Flash 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 | 128 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 123 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 123 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 137 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 115 | 123 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →