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Thinking Machines: Inkling vs Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)

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

Who wins by task?

Task	Thinking Machines: Inkling	Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)
SQL Generation	130	139
Code Review	135	140
Code Completion	119	131
Code Refactoring	138	141
Bug Fixing	143	144
Unit Test Generation	120	129
Code Documentation	134	134
Regex Writing	123	125
CI/CD Pipelines	120	125
Frontend Component Design	122	128
Data Analysis	126	132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	123	133
ETL Scripting	129	133
JSON Extraction	111	132
Bulk Data Labeling	116	130
OCR / Document Parsing	125	131
Table Extraction from PDFs	125	131
Long-Document Summarization	144	143
Short-Form Summarization	117	126
Blog Post Writing	126	127

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